Summer

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The usually warmest season of the year, occurring between spring and autumn and constituting June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere, or, as calculated astronomically, extending from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox.
  • n. A period of fruition, fulfillment, happiness, or beauty.
  • n. A year: a girl of 13 summers.
  • v. To lodge or keep during the summer: summered the herd in the south meadow.
  • verb-intransitive. To pass the summer: They summered at a beach resort.
  • adj. Of, having to do with, occurring in, or appropriate to the season of summer: summer heat; summer attire.
  • adj. Grown during the season of summer: summer crops.
  • n. A heavy horizontal timber that serves as a supporting beam, especially for the floor above.
  • n. A lintel.
  • n. A large, heavy stone usually set on the top of a column or pilaster to support an arch or lintel.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as being from June 22 to September 23 in parts of the USA, and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • v. To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.
  • n. A pack-horse.
  • n. A horizontal beam supporting a building.
  • n. A person who sums.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who sums; one who casts up an account.
  • n. A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree.
  • n. The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
  • verb-intransitive. To pass the summer; to spend the warm season.
  • v. To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The warmest season of the year: in the United States reckoned as the months June, July, and August; in Great Britain as May, June, and July. See season.
  • n. A whole year as represented by the summer; a twelvemonth: as, a child of three summers.
  • Of or pertaining to summer: as, summer heat; hence, sunny and warm.
  • The green sandpiper.
  • The dunlin or purre.
  • To pass the summer or warm season.
  • To keep or carry through the summer.
  • To feed during the summer, as cattle.
  • n. A pack-horse; a sumpter-horse.
  • n. In building: A large timber or beam laid as a bearing-beam. See cuts under beam, 1.
  • n. A girder.
  • n. A brest-summer.
  • n. A large stone, the first that is laid upon a column or pilaster in the construction of an arch, or of several arches uniting upon one impost, as in the ribs of groined vaulting.
  • n. A stone laid upon a column to receive a haunch of a plat-band.
  • n. A lintel.
  • n. One who sums; one who casts up an account.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
  • n. the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty
  • v. spend the summer
  • Antonym
    winter   
    Verb Form
    summered    summering    summers   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    season    time of year    time of life    spend    pass   
    Variant
    summertree   
    Form
    summered    summering   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Comer    Hummer    brummer    bummer    comer    drummer    dumber    glummer    hummer    midsummer   
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    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    winter    spring    autumn    even    season    night    weather    forest    garden    sun