summer

A1
US /ˈsʌmɚ/ UK /ˈsʌmə/
noun verb Freq #1121

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty

    The golden summer of my life.

  2. 2
    noun

    the warmest season of the year

    in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox

  3. 3
    verb

    spend the summer

    We summered in Kashmir

  4. 4
    noun

    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 spanning either the period between the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox, or the months of June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.

    the heat of summer

  5. 5
    noun

    year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.

    He was barely eighteen summers old.

  6. 6
    noun

    Most flourishing, happy, or beautiful period; golden age, prime.

    O! craving heart, for the lost flowers And sunshine of my summer hours!

  7. 7
    verb

    To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.

    For he was an oddity, a black multimillionaire who summered on the Riviera, had an apartment in Paris and a penthouse, in a building he owned, high above Sugar Hill.

  8. 8
    noun

    A horizontal beam supporting a building.

    And we are warned, that the foundation or maine summers of our houses faile and shrinke, when we see the quarters bend, or wals to breake.

Etymology

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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Thesaurus

Synonyms
2 noun · the warmest season of the year summertime
8 noun · a horizontal beam... summerbeamsummertree
Opposites
Word family
Derived forms bressummersummer-castlesummer-piecesummer-stonesummer-towersummer-trestlesummer-upsummerbeamsummeringsummertreetranssummer
Related forms adder

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