Jack Frost


noun
  1. frost or freezing cold personified.

Origin of Jack Frost

1
First recorded in 1815–25

Words Nearby Jack Frost

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

How to use Jack Frost in a sentence

  • Before morning old Jack Frost snapped his fingers and the whole world was encased in ice.

  • So Marmaduke showed them the little red and blue sleigh, and told them all about the little driver, Jack Frost.

    Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon Anderson
  • Many beautiful pictures may be found in the valley in winter when Jack Frost is ruler of all the snow-clad, ice-bound cañon.

    Stories of California | Ella M. Sexton
  • "A noisy titmouse is Jack Frost's trumpeter" may be one of those few weather-wise proverbs with a grain of truth in them.

    Bird Neighbors | Neltje Blanchan
  • And with the help of the sun and Jack Frost it makes these fairy millstones for itself.

British Dictionary definitions for Jack Frost

Jack Frost

noun
  1. a personification of frost or winter

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012