Summer

Quick meaning: Summer is a noun meaning (poetic or humorous) year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.

Meaning

(poetic or humorous) year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) Most flourishing, happy, or beautiful period; golden age, prime.
2. (intransitive) To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.
3. (architecture) A horizontal beam supporting a building.
4. A person who sums.
5. (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.
6. 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 spanning either the period between the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox, or the months of June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.
7. (obsolete) A pack-horse.

Example Sentences

the heat of summer

He was barely eighteen summers old.

I'm going to the Gambia in the summer.

She had seen not more than twenty summers.

Word Forms

• summers
• summering
• summered

Synonyms for summer

Depending on context, synonyms include summerbeam, summertree, totaller, summertime.

Antonyms for summer

Common opposites include winter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include summertime, summery, winter, midsummer, autumn, year.

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