autumn
IPA: ˈɔtʌm
noun
- Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves; typically regarded as being from September 24 to December 22 in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere.
- (by extension) The time period when someone or something is past its prime.
- (fashion) A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.
- A female given name from English of modern usage, from autumn, the name of the season.
verb
- (intransitive) To spend the autumn (in a particular place).
- To undergo the changes associated with autumn, such as leaves changing color and falling from trees.
adjective
- the season of cooling temperature following summer
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Examples of "autumn" in Sentences
- This is just a prelude to autumn.
- In autumn the many acers and the vine are in season.
- This last view of baseball in autumn is nothing new.
- The leaf the idle wind shakes down in autumn from the tree,
- It breeds in the autumn and gives birth in the winter burrow.
- The short spring and autumn seasons usually are mild and balmy.
- The allies retreated in the autumn because of the incoming winter.
- Autumn is the most vivid and colorful season in the national park.
- Many tourists visit the region during the autumn for the fall foliage.
- In fall, the hills are awash in the beautiful colours of autumn leaves.
- The dying of the light in the autumn is a particularly bad spot, often.
- In autumn and winter, the Echidna shows periods of torpor or deep hibernation.
- The first season was broadcast in the spring of 2006, the second in the autumn.
- And I've decided that 'autumn' is a much more pleasant and pretty sounding and looking word than 'fall' is.
- He thus strangely forgets that what we call autumn is springtime in the southern hemisphere (_Astronomy of the Ancients_, p. 511).
- "If these Bayern are the real deal, the word autumn champions might just take on a whole new meaning," predicted Abendzeitung eerily.
- But the real haute couture story of this autumn is a young British designer who is about to transform the highly traditional world of Italian shoes.
- In stating that "the fashionable flag under which to fly this autumn is the F-word", Glover is correct that fairness will remain a central political battleground.
- North America I'm from the UK, and North Americans share three names for their seasons with us (Winter, spring and summer), but what we call autumn is called the Fall, what are the origins of this?
- The chicadees are gathering about the houses again; these birds are resident with us through the year, but we seldom see them in summer; until the month of June they are often met fluttering about the groves near at hand, but from that time until the autumn is advancing, perhaps you will not see one.