Meaning of 'summer'
Meaning of 'summer' (Webster Dictionary)
- 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.
- The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year. - One who sums; one who casts up an account. - To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland. - To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.
- The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year. - One who sums; one who casts up an account. - To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland. - To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.
Meaning of 'summer' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty
- the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty
Example in sentence:
- the golden summer of his life
Meaning (2):
- the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
- the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
Example in sentence:
- they spent a lazy summer at the shore
Meaning (3):
- spend the summer
- spend the summer
Example in sentence:
- We summered in Kashmir
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