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Definition of Summer

1. Verb. Spend the summer. "We summered in Kashmir"

2. Noun. The warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox. "They spent a lazy summer at the shore"

3. Noun. The period of finest development, happiness, or beauty. "The golden summer of his life"

Definition of Summer

1. n. One who sums; one who casts up an account.

2. n. 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.

3. n. The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.

4. v. i. To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland.

5. v. t. To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.

Definition of Summer

1. Proper noun. (English female given name) of modern usage, for a girl born in summer. ¹

2. 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 being from June 22 to September 23 in parts of the USA, and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday. ¹

4. Noun. (obsolete) A pack-horse. ¹

5. Noun. A horizontal beam supporting a building. ¹

6. Noun. A person who sums. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Summer

1. to pass the summer (the warmest season of the year) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Summer

summat summat else summate summated summates summating summation summation plural summational summations

summative summatively summats summed summed up summer summer's day summer-camp summer-house summer-like

summer-stirring summer-time summer-work summer and winter summer boarder summer camp summer camps summer cohosh summer cottage summer crookneck

Literary usage of Summer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Macbeth edited by William Shakespeare (2001)
"Than summer-seeming lust, and it hath been The sword of our slain kings : yet do ... Summer-teeming, ie, the Passion, which lasts no longer than the Heat of ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Summer SCHOOL OF THE SOUTH, a school for teachers established at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in the summer of 1902. It was organized to supply ..."

3. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1896)
"The director felt doubt in the beginning as to the advisability of this short course, but a careful study of last summer's work and the results has ..."

4. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1899)
"Nobody ever wears summer clothing. You wear black broadcloth — if you have ... The wind blows there a good deal in the summer months, but then you can go ..."

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