Autumn

Quick meaning: Autumn is a noun meaning (by extension) The time period when someone or something is past its prime.

Meaning

(by extension) The time period when someone or something is past its prime.

More Meanings

1. (fashion) A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.
2. (intransitive) To spend the autumn (in a particular place).
3. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) undergo the changes associated with autumn, such as leaves changing color and falling from trees.
4. Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves, and temperatures and daylight hours decrease; typically regarded as spanning the months of September, October, and November in the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere.

Example Sentences

autumn leaves

She has beauty still, and if it be not in its heyday, it is not yet in its autumn.

The Spring, the Sommer, / The childing Autumne, angry Winter change / Their wonted Liueries, […]

I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom / I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not've got 'em

Word Forms

• autumns
• autum
• autumning
• autumned

Synonyms for autumn

Depending on context, synonyms include fall, harvest, back end, decline.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fall, winter, summer, chu, spring, choo.

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