They don’t say that already, nobody calls a severe frost or cold cold. And in vain, a good word, after all. Only the forgotten. Today we will look at it closely. Our topic is the cold. What is it?
Value
So they say when it comes to severe frost or cold. In the dictionaries it is written that this is a colloquial option. It seems that at the moment it is safe to say that the word “cold” is a little outdated, out of active use, and almost no one remembers it.
When the phrase “winter cold” is heard, then it blows from books of N. V. Gogol and the 19th century. In an extreme case, Soviet literature comes to mind, but when current writers use this definition of cold, it seems, perhaps, only "antique". In other words, in the modern language, the word feels alien among its own.
Synonyms
Replacing words come down to a short list:
Naturally, a cold is not just frost or cold, it is their superlative degree. That is, you can’t take the temperature of -5 degrees cold, it's ridiculous. They talk about the cold when the wind whistles in the wires, a blizzard broke out on the street, and the thermometer shows -25. True, it is possible without a blizzard, but it must be very cold, otherwise it is not a cold.
Frost is a full-fledged hero of Russian folk tales
The cold is not only a natural phenomenon, but also the acting person of your favorite folk stories. No polls were conducted, of course, but it seems that everyone knows Alexander Row, and they even watched the tale “Morozko” in America, but after watching the reaction they had was completely different than the Russian audience.
Western people, for example, did not understand why Marfushka eventually remained with her nose and why she is a negative character, because she has such correct value orientations: wealth, success (getting married), and the heroine, who, on the contrary, is submissive and not a fish at all not meat, - we have it in high esteem. Okay, we got distracted.
Even the Americans did not realize that the severe cold in the tale is humanized and bears the speaking name Morozko (one of the main characters). He helps those who are kind to him, and the arrogance of Marfushka is not to his liking. At the end of the film, Marfushka arrives home in pigs, and in a fairy tale Morozko froze her to death.
I don’t want to think that “cold” is a word that has left us forever. Indeed, the nouns “frost” and “cold” do not always convey the shade that is needed. Yes, a person can say: "It's cold outside." But the interlocutor will have to ask how cold it is? If it sounds: “Wow, cold!” - This does not require clarification. Take the word in arms, maybe someday it will come in handy.