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sum·mer (sum′ər)

noun

  1. the warmest season of the year: in the North Temperate Zone, generally regarded as including the months of June, July, and August: in the astronomical year, that period between the summer solstice and the autumnal equinox
  2. a year as reckoned by this season a youth of sixteen summers
  3. any period of growth, development, fulfillment, perfection, etc.

Etymology: ME sumer < OE sumor, akin to Ger sommer < IE base *sem-, summertime > Sans sámā, half year, season

adjective

  1. of or typical of summer
  2. designed for or taking place during summer summer activities

intransitive verb

to pass the summer

transitive verb

to keep, feed, or maintain during the summer
summer2 definition

sum·mer (sum′ər)

noun

  1. a large, horizontal, supporting beam or girder
  2. lintel
  3. the capstone of a column supporting an arch or lintel

Etymology: ME < OFr somier, pack horse < LL sagmarius, pack horse < sagma, pack saddle < Gr < base of sattein, to stuff

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summer Synonyms

summer

modif.

summery, summertime, in summer, vacation; see hot 1, warm 1.


summer

n.

summertime, summer season, full summer, dog days, sunny season, harvest, haying time, vacation, picnic days, fly time*; see also season.

Antonyms winter*, cold months, snowy season.


summer

v.

vacation, stay for the summer, spend the summer, take a holiday at, holiday; see also live 2, remain 1.


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summer Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • discontent: However, there is more than one way to challenge bad decisions so I predict a summer of discontent.

Converse of object

  • retire: Our current housemaster of Coke House, Mr Gordon Cardew, also retires this summer.

Adjective modifier

  • hot: The recent hot summers have been good for breeding with the largest ever number of burrows recorded in 1996.

Modifies a noun

  • vacation: They can study at their own pace over the summer vacation.

Noun used with modifier

  • drier: Water shortages and droughts will also become more common as global climatic changes leave us with wetter winters and drier summers.
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summer quotes

It was no summer progress. A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just, the worst time of the year, to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off in solstitio brumali, the very dead of winter. See Eliot 306:73.

-Andrewes, Lancelot

Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweth sed, and bleweth med, And springth the wude nu. See also Pound 664:27.

-Anonymous

Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

-Aristotle

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