Home > Antonyms > Antonyms for autumn

Antonyms for autumn

Grammar : Noun
Spell : aw-tuh m
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔ təm

Definition of autumn

Origin :
  • late 14c., autumpne (modern form from 16c.), from Old French autumpne, automne (13c.), from Latin autumnus (also auctumnus, perhaps influenced by auctus "increase"), of unknown origin. Perhaps from Etruscan, but Tucker suggests a meaning "drying-up season" and a root in *auq- (which would suggest the form in -c- was the original) and compares archaic English sere-month "August."
  • Harvest was the English name for the season until autumn began to displace it 16c. In Britain, the season is popularly August through October; in U.S., September through November. Cf. Italian autunno, Spanish otoño, Portuguese outono, all from the Latin word. Unlike the other three seasons, its names across the Indo-European languages leave no evidence that there ever was a common word for it.
  • Many "autumn" words mean "end, end of summer," or "harvest." Cf. also Lithuanian ruduo "autumn," from rudas "reddish," in reference to leaves; Old Irish fogamar, literally "under-winter."
  • noun season between summer and winter
Example sentences :
  • I'd been figurin' and schemin' all autumn how to get my traps before the winter comes on.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • Not a breeze can stir but it thrills us with the breath of autumn.
  • Extract from : « The Old Manse (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The son of Monseigneur will in the autumn marry Mademoiselle de Voincourt.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • From week to week it was put off till the autumn was far advanced.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • Thus the Summer and Autumn passed away, and a cold Winter had come.
  • Extract from : « What Sami Sings with the Birds » by Johanna Spyri
  • It was autumn now, and the greenwood was not what it had been.
  • Extract from : « A Little Book of Profitable Tales » by Eugene Field
  • Autumn had begun to tinge the foliage on the banks of Winandermere.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • It was then autumn; and field, and even garden flowers were growing rare.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • In 1793 he published his first papers; and in the autumn of 1795 he entered the University of Gottingen.
  • Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro
  • His last visit to his native valley was in the autumn of 1845.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier

Synonyms for autumn

Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019