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Definitions for Summer

[1] the season between spring and autumn, in the Northern Hemisphere from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox, and in the Southern Hemisphere from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox.
[2] the period comprising the months of June, July, and August in the U.S., and from the middle of May to the middle of August in Great Britain.
[3] a period of hot, usually sunny weather: We had no real summer last year.
[4] the hotter half of the year (opposed to winter): They spend the summers in New Hampshire and the winters in Florida.
[5] the period of finest development, perfection, or beauty previous to any decline: the summer of life.
[6] a whole year as represented by this season: a girl of fifteen summers.
[7] of, relating to, or characteristic of summer: Iced tea is a summer drink.
[8] appropriate for or done during the summer: summer clothes; summer sports.
[9] having the weather or warmth of summer: summer days in late October.
[10] to spend or pass the summer: They summered in Maine.
[11] to keep, feed, or manage during the summer: Sheep are summered in high pastures.
[12] to make summerlike.
[13] a principal beam or girder, as one running between girts to support joists.
[14] a stone laid upon a pier, column, or wall, from which one or more arches spring: usually molded or otherwise treated like the arch or arches springing from it.
[15] a beam or lintel.
[16] (sometimes capital) the warmest season of the year, between spring and autumn, astronomically from the June solstice to the September equinox in the N hemisphere and at the opposite time of year in the S hemisphere (as modifier ) summer flowers ; a summer dress Related adjective: aestival
[17] the period of hot weather associated with the summer
[18] a time of blossoming, greatest happiness, etc
[19] mainly poetic a year represented by this season a child of nine summers
[20] (intr) to spend the summer (at a place)
[21] (tr) to keep or feed (farm animals) during the summer they summered their cattle on the mountain slopes
[22] Also called: summer tree a large horizontal beam or girder, esp one that supports floor joists
[23] another name for lintel
[24] a stone on the top of a column, pier, or wall that supports an arch or lintel

Words related to Summer

vacation, summertime, heat, midsummer

Words nearby Summer

summation, summation gallop, summation method, summative, summative assessment, summer, summer camp, summer complaint, summer cypress, summer diarrhea, summer flounder

Origin of Summer

21275–1325; Middle English somer < Anglo-French; Old French somier packhorse, beam < Vulgar Latin *saumārius, equivalent to Latin sagm(a ) packsaddle (< Greek ságma ) + -ārius -ary; see -er2

Other words from Summer

sum·mer·less , adjective

Word origin for Summer

C14: from Anglo-Norman somer, from Old French somier beam, packhorse, from Late Latin sagmārius (equus ) pack(horse), from sagma a packsaddle, from Greek

Synonyms for Summer

summertime, vacation, heat, midsummer, daylight savings time, dog days, picnic days, riot time, summer solstice, summertide, sunny season