summer

IPA: sˈʌmɝ

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 21 to September 22 or 23 in parts of the USA, the months of June, July and August in the United Kingdom and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • (poetic or humorous) year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.
  • (figuratively) Most flourishing, happy, or beautiful period; golden age, prime.
  • (countable, fashion) Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
  • (architecture) A horizontal beam supporting a building.
  • (obsolete) A pack-horse.
  • A person who sums.
  • A machine or algorithm that sums.
  • (countable) A female given name from English of modern usage, from summer, the name of the season, often given to girls born in summer.
  • (countable) A surname.
  • (archaic or poetic) Alternative letter-case form of summer. [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 21 to September 22 or 23 in parts of the USA, the months of June, July and August in the United Kingdom and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.]

verb

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

adjective

  • the hottest season of the year
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Examples of "summer" in Sentences

  • It is unbearably hot in summer.
  • It really is scorching hot in the summer.
  • In the summer, the weather is hot and dry.
  • The peak season for cherries is in the summer.
  • In the blink of an eye, the hot summer has arrived.
  • Hakkari is freezing in the winter and hot in the summer.
  • In general it is tepid and rainy in winter, hot in summer.
  • In general, it is tepid and rainy in winter, hot in summer.
  • The climate in Panaji is hot in summer and equable in winter.
  • The summers are hot and merciless, the winters cold and damp.

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