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
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard 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
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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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.
