WINTER
\wˈɪntə], \wˈɪntə], \w_ˈɪ_n_t_ə]\
Definitions of WINTER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 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
- 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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the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox
By Princeton University
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The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.
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The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
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To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florida.
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To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.
By Oddity Software
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The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.
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The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
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To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florida.
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To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.
By Noah Webster.
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The cold season of the year; cold weather; a period when vitality is low; as, old age is the winter of life.
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To pass the months of the cold season; as, snakes winter in the ground.
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To keep during the cold season.
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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The cold season of the year, commencing, astronomically, in the northern hemisphere, when the sun enters Capricorn, or at the solstice about the 21st of December, and ending at the equinox in March; but in ordinary discourse, confined to the three months of December, January, and February; a period resembling winter; the part of a printing-press which sustains the carriage.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The fourth and coldest season of the year.
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To pass the winter; to feed or manage during winter.
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Pert. to a winter.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, Gothic] The cold season of the year ; in common usage, in the northern hemisphere, the period from the first day of December to the first day of March ; in astronomical usage, the period from the solstice in December (about the twenty-first day) to the vernal equinox in March (about the twenty-first day);—a year.
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