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.
- Walking out of the church in summer is always lovely.
- 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.
- You may sweat a little, but sweating in summer is not a catastrophe.
- Hokkaido in summer is not cool enough for the polar bears in Asahikawa Zoo.
- DO you know how the dream looms? how if summer misses one of us the two of us miss summer
- Its seemed to me that it must have been a happy summer for youa real summer of roses and winewithout the wine, perhaps.
- But now I think we are heading into some kind of summer, with all the heat and conflict and humidity and all the bad things associated with the word summer in the Arab world, she said.
- A warm and open winter portends a hot Und dry summer f for the yapours disperse into the winter showers; whereas cold and frost keep them in, and convey them to the late spring and following summer*
- I'm so ready for summer it's not funny. * please dear weather gods and godesses give me one solid month of sunny days before we leave for NY in December and get cheated out of summer* Don't get me wrong, I'm so excited to go home for christmas and be back in the US, but dear god ...
- Those are your left social engineers on a grand scale criminal types…those names up there and others too numerous to recall in small states in Africa and other places…like Cuba for instance…could anyone on the right have done the kind of social engineering that Cuba has done to their own people…even forcing parents to send their kids every summer to ’summer camps’ where they are forced to work the state-owned farms…
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