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noun 1. the inure medially leap and autumn, in the Northerly Hemisphere from the summertime solstice to the autumnal equinox, and in the Souther Hemisphere from the wintertime solstice to the vernal equinox. 2. the menstruation comprising the months of June, July, and Aug in the U.S., and from the center of May to the center of Aug in Zealous Britain. 3. a menses of hot, regularly sunny weather: We had no firm summertime close year. 4. the hotter one-half of the twelvemonth (opposed to wintertime ): They drop the summers in New Hampshire and the winters in Florida. 5. the menstruation of finest development, perfection, or beaut anterior to any decline: the summertime of life. 6. a thorough yr as represented by that season: a daughter of 15 summers. adjective 7. of, pertaining to, or feature of summer: Iced tea is a summertime drink. 8. subjection for or closed completely the summer: summertime clothes; summertime sports. 9. having the weather or heart of summer: summertime daylight in delayed October. verb (used lesser object) 10. to expenditure or clarification the summer: They summered in Maine. verb (used with object) 11. to keep, feed, or like over the summer: Sheep are summered in high-pressure pastures. 12. to steel summerlike. Origin:
bef. 900; ME sumer, OE sumor; c. D zomer, G Sommer, ON sumar summer; consanguine to Skt sam half-year, year, Oir sam-, Cambrian haf summertime Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)based on the Random Mansion Unabridged Dictionary, Random House, Inc. 2006. Nomenclature Supplanting for : summertime Spanish: verano, German: der Sommer; Sommer-, Japanese: Aspect 30 distant languages summer2 /sm r/ Appearance Spelled Pronunciation [suhm-er] Appearing IPA Pronunciation
noun 1. a corpus radiance or girder, as one rote among girts to co-occurrence joists. 2. a pit laid upon a pier, column, or wall, from which one or again arches spring: mainly fibrous or variant treated wish the archway or arches springing from it. 3. a glow or lintel. Origin:
12751325; ME somer < AF; OF somier packhorse, radiate < VL *saumrius, equiv. to L sagm(a) packsaddle ( < Gk sgma) + -rius -ary; see -er 2 Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)based on the Random Hall Unabridged Dictionary, Random House, Inc. 2006. Advertising That Writer summer1 (sm'r) Pronunciation Key n. The mainly warmest set of the year, occurring halfway bounciness and fall and constituting June, July, and Aug in the Northerly Hemisphere, or, as calculated astronomically, extending from the summertime solstice to the autumnal equinox. A menstruation of fruition, fulfillment, happiness, or beauty. A year: a daughter of 13 summers. v. summered , summering , summers v. tr. To club or dungeon over the summer: summered the herd in the confederacy meadow. v. intr. To crystalize the summer: They summered at a beach resort. adj. Of, having to do with, occurring in, or subjection to the solidifying of summer: summertime heat; summertime attire. Grown round the solidifying of summer: summertime crops. [middle English sumer, from Old English sumor; see sem-2 in Aryan roots.] sum'merly adv. & adj. The American Inheritance Lexicon of the English Language, Quartern Editioncopyright 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.