Antonyms for summer

Grammar : Noun

Spell : suhm-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsʌm ər

winter

Definition of summer

Origin : "hot season of the year," Old English sumor, from Proto-Germanic *sumur- (cf. Old Saxon, Old Norse, Old High German sumar, Old Frisian sumur, Middle Dutch somer, Dutch zomer, German Sommer), from PIE root *sem- (cf. Sanskrit sama "season, half-year," Avestan hama "in summer," Armenian amarn "summer," Old Irish sam, Old Welsh ham, Welsh haf "summer"). Old Norse sumarsdag, first day of summer, was the Thursday that fell between April 9 and 15.
Summer camp is attested from 1893; summer resort is from 1832; summer school first recorded 1860; theatrical summer stock is attested from 1942.

noun hot season of the year

Example sentences :

Then for the summer we'll go to Newport, and when we come back from there we'll take a house.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

Connecticut supplies all summer resorts with the finest Havana segars.
Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1. No. 20, August 13, 1870 » by Various

It was well that it was a summer night, for lodgings there were none.
Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge

And here it was that the summer began its game with their hearts.
Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke

And what are the haughtiest of us, but the ephemeral aristocrats of a summer's day?
Extract from : « The Toll Gatherer's Day (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

After their return in the summer he began to write his book, The Social Order.
Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair

It was on a summer's evening, when the windows of the church were open.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

The still summer air was heavy with the resinous smell of the great forest.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

I have seen a stronger fortalice carried in a summer evening.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

All the joy had gone out of the summer night for him, poor lad.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Synonyms for summer

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