Summer Definition

sŭmər
summered, summering, summers
noun
summers
The warmest season of the year: in the North Temperate Zone, generally regarded as including the months of June, July, and August: in the astronomical year, that period between the summer solstice and the autumnal equinox.
Webster's New World
The season extending from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox.
American Heritage
Any period of growth, development, fulfillment, perfection, etc.
Webster's New World
A year as reckoned by this season.
A youth of sixteen summers.
Webster's New World
A large, horizontal, supporting beam or girder.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
  • snowy season
  • cold months
  • winter
verb
summered, summering
To keep, feed, or maintain during the summer.
Webster's New World
To pass the summer.
Webster's New World
(intransitive) To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.
We like to summer in the Mediterranean.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adjective
Of or typical of summer.
Webster's New World
Designed for or taking place during summer.
Summer activities.
Webster's New World
pronoun
A female given name of modern usage, for a girl born in summer.
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Other Word Forms of Summer

Noun

Singular:
summer
Plural:
summers

Origin of Summer

  • From Middle English somer, sumer, from Old English sumor (“summer"), from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz (“summer"), from Proto-Indo-European *sam-, *sem-, *smÌ¥-hâ‚‚-ó- (“summer, year"). Cognate with Scots somer, sumer, simer (“summer"), West Frisian simmer (“summer"), Saterland Frisian Suumer (“summer"), Dutch zomer (“summer"), Low German Sommer (“summer"), German Sommer (“summer"), Swedish sommar (“summer"), Icelandic sumar (“summer"), Welsh haf (“summer"), Armenian Õ¡Õ´ (am, “year"), Õ¡Õ´Õ¡Õ¼ (amaá¹™, “summer"), Sanskrit [script?] (sámā, “a half-year, season, weather, year").

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  • Middle English beam, pack animal from Anglo-Norman sumer from Vulgar Latin saumārius from Late Latin sagmārius pertaining to a packsaddle, packhorse from sagma packsaddle sumpter

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Anglo-Norman somer, sumer, from Vulgar Latin saumārius, for Latin sagmārius, from sagma (“sum").

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  • Middle English sumer from Old English sumor sem-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • sum + -er

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