SUMMER
\sˈʌmə], \sˈʌmə], \s_ˈʌ_m_ə]\
Definitions of SUMMER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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spend the summer; "We summered in Kashmir"
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the warmest season of the year; "they spent a lazy summer at the shore"
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occurring in or appropriate to the season of summer; "summer flowers"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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One who sums; one who casts up an account.
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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.
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The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
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To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland.
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To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.
By Oddity Software
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The season of the year in any region when the sun shines most directly; the warmest part of the year.
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To pass the summer; as, to summer abroad.
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Summery.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The hot season of the year in non-tropical climates, varying in length according to the latitude and elevation above the sea.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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As in summer.
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One who casts up an account.
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The warm season of the year, comprehended in our northern hemisphere within the months of June, July, and August.
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A large stone, the first that is laid over columns and pilasters, beginning to make a cross vault; a large timber supported on two strong piers or posts, or a strong beam laid as a central floor-timber.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In arch., the first stone laid over columns to form a cross-vault; the central beam of a floor; a horizontal beam or girder.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, German, Icelandic] One of the four seasons of the year ; the season in which the sun advances to and recedes from the northern solstice or cancer, and gives warmest weather in northern latitudes ;-period from the end of May to the beginning of August inclusive ; - the warmest half of the year, opposed to winter.
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n. One who casts up sums or an account.
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n. [French] A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, and the like, serving for various uses, as the lintel of a door or window, the commencement of a cross, vault, &c. :-called also summer-tree.
