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summer1

Pronunciation: /ˈsʌmə/

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Definition of summer

noun

  • the warmest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from June to August and in the southern hemisphere from December to February:this plant flowers in late summer a long hot summer [as modifier]:summer holidays figurativethe golden summer of her life
  • Astronomy the period from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox.
  • (summers) literary years, especially of a person’s age:a girl of sixteen or seventeen summers

verb

[no object, with adverbial of place]
  • spend the summer in a particular place:well over 100 birds summered there in 1976
  • [with object] pasture (cattle) for the summer.

Derivatives

summery

adjective

Origin:

Old English sumor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zomer, German Sommer, also to Sanskrit samā 'year'

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Definition of summer in the US English dictionary

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