Winter

Quick meaning: Winter is a noun meaning (figuratively, poetic) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.

Meaning

(figuratively, poetic) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.

More Meanings

1. (countable, fashion) Someone with dark skin, eyes and hair, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
2. (India, archaic) The rainy season.
3. (intransitive) To spend the winter (in a particular place).
4. (transitive) To store something (for instance animals) somewhere over winter to protect it from cold.
5. Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as spanning either the period between the winter solstice to the spring equinox, or the months of December, January, and February in temperate and polar regions of the Northern Hemisphere and the months of June, July, and August in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, resulting in short days, and the time of year with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region.
6. (obsolete) An appliance to be fixed on the front of a grate, to keep a kettle warm, etc.

Example Sentences

Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge.

There shall he learn, ere sixteen winters old, That …

And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold.

[…] a woman, tall, and strong of aspect, of some thirty winters by seeming, [...]

Word Forms

• winters
• wintering
• wintered

Synonyms for winter

Depending on context, synonyms include wintertime.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wintertime, wintery, wintry, summer, autumn, solstice.

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