cool (temperature) construction

Part of language	English
Meaning of the construction	low temperature
comment	from Indo-european *gel(ə) (DWDS)

Construction elements

Examples

Example 1

Text	The guests enjoyed cool drinks on the arched terrace beside the gently-lapping poll.
comment	BNC: The Daily Mirror. London:Mirror Group Newspaper, 1992, pp.??. 9942 s-units.

Example 2

Text	cool breeze

Example 3

Text	cool to the touch

Example 4

Text	cool climate

Links

metaphorical link	cool as admirable construction	Informal English
metaphorical link	cool as colour construction	English
metaphorical link	cool as emotion construction	English

Research

Research Question	Building a Research Constructicon
Findings	Implement a lexical item in the research constructicon

Metadata

Date Created	2025-11-28
Annotator	Julia Boos
Annotator	Elizaveta Petrenko
Annotator	Lina Weigelt
Annotator	Elodie Winckel
References	Davies (ed.) (2024). British National Corpus.
References	Davies (ed.) The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA).
References	DWDS - Digitale Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (2025). cool.
References	Oxford English Dictionary (2025). cool (adjective, Adverb, Interjection).

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