Definitions for Summer

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Summer sum·mer

Spelling: [suhm-er]

IPA: /ˈsʌm ər/

Summer is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in Summer (emmrsu).

Definitions for Summer

noun

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:
4. the hotter half of the year (opposed to winter):
5. the period of finest development, perfection, or beauty previous to any decline:
6. a whole year as represented by this season:
7. a principal beam or girder, as one running between girts to support joists.
8. 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.
9. a beam or lintel.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of summer:
2. appropriate for or done during the summer:
3. having the weather or warmth of summer:

verb (used with object)

1. to keep, feed, or manage during the summer:
2. to make summerlike.

verb (used without object)

1. to spend or pass the summer:

Origin of Summer

before 900; Middle English sumer, Old English sumor; cognate with Dutch zomer, German Sommer, Old Norse sumar summer; akin to Sanskrit samā half-year, year, Old Irish sam-, Welsh haf summer

Examples for Summer

And here it was that the summer began its game with their hearts.

Then for the summer we'll go to Newport, and when we come back from there we'll take a house.

Pitchfork called him a “a rap-obsessed misfit from a summer camp who freestyles poorly” who is “ridiculous without knowing it.”

Miller traces his irreverent and subversive streak to a psychedelic experience during the particularly sweltering summer of 1991.

And what are the haughtiest of us, but the ephemeral aristocrats of a summer's day?

I was a bridesmaid this summer for a couple that met at The Ball in 2011.

BEIRUT—It is December, but Sabrine Omar is still wearing her summer clothes.

It was well that it was a summer night, for lodgings there were none.

Connecticut supplies all summer resorts with the finest Havana segars.

What ritual did some celebrities start engaging in over the summer?