summer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The warmest season of the year, between spring and autumn.

   We always go to the beach in summer.

2. 2
   noun

   The finest, happiest, or most successful period of someone's life.

   Those years were the summer of her career.

3. 3
   verb

   To spend the summer somewhere, especially on holiday.

   The family summered on the coast every year.

Common collocations

• hot summer Adjective + noun
• long summer Adjective + noun
• summer months Adjective + noun
• spend the summer Verb + noun
• dry summer Adjective + noun
• late summer Adjective + noun

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *s(e)m-eh₂- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-h₂-ór-o-der. Proto-Germanic *sumaraz Proto-West Germanic *sumar Old English sumor Middle English somer English summer From Middle English somer, sumer, from Old English sumor m, from Proto-West Germanic *sumar m, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz m, derived from Proto-Indo-European *semh₂- (“summer”). Cognates Cognate with Scots somer, sumer, simer, West Frisian simmer, Saterland Frisian Suumer, Dutch zomer, Low German Sommer, German Sommer, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sommer, Swedish sommar, Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic sum…

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