summer
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
summer1
▶noun
- 1 the season after spring and before autumn, when the weather is warmest.
■ Astronomy the period from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox.
- 2 (summers) literary years, especially of a person's age.
■ pasture (cattle) for the summer.
– derivatives
summery adjective.
summery adjective.
– origin OE sumor, of Gmc origin.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
summer2 (also summer tree)
▶noun a horizontal bearing beam, especially one supporting joists or rafters.
– origin ME: from OFr. somier ‘packhorse’, from late L. sagmarius, from Gk sagma ‘packsaddle’.
'summer' also found in these Oxford entries:
aestival
- aestivation
- autumn
- belvedere
- blazer
- bower
- breastsummer
- BST
- camp
- Cancer
- cerastium
- chez
- daylight saving time
- doily
- fallow deer
- gossamer
- haboob
- harebell
- high
- Indian summer
- isothere
- kermis
- kiosk
- long vacation
- meltemi
- midnight sun
- midsummer
- noctilucent cloud
- pavilion
- red deer
- roe
- savory
- season
- sika
- silly
- snowflake
- snow-in-summer
- solar year
- sowbread
- spring
- summer house
- summer lightning
- summer pudding
- summer sausage
- summer school
- summer squash
- summer stock
- summertime
