Definitions for Winter

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Winter win·ter

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IPA: /ˈwɪn tər/

Winter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in Winter (einrtw).

Definitions for Winter

noun

1. the cold season between autumn and spring in northern latitudes (in the Northern Hemisphere from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox; in the Southern Hemisphere from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox).
2. the months of December, January, and February in the U.S., and of November, December, and January in Great Britain.
3. cold weather:
4. the colder half of the year (opposed to summer).
5. a whole year as represented by this season:
6. a period like winter, as the last or final period of life; a period of decline, decay, inertia, dreariness, or adversity.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of winter:
2. (of fruit and vegetables) of a kind that may be kept for use during the winter.
3. planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer:

verb (used without object)

1. to spend or pass the winter:
2. to keep, feed, or manage during the winter, as plants or cattle:

Origin of Winter

before 900; (noun) Middle English, Old English; cognate with German Winter, Old Norse vetr, Gothic wintrus; (v.) Middle English, derivative of the noun; akin to wet, <

Examples for Winter

After all, the Russians were about to mount a winter offensive of their own.

But winter is dead, Clapton is tired of life on the road, and King unreliable in concert.

One line in “winter Wonderland” has stopped countless people dead in their tracks.

With the harsh Middle Eastern winter approaching fast, what people in Syria and Iraq need most, in fact, is humanitarian support.

I'd been figurin' and schemin' all autumn how to get my traps before the winter comes on.

It was on this errand that she first visited Boston—we believe in the winter of 1858-59.

The winter has been trying; there is rain one day, frost the next.

winter was near and he had no money to buy cloaks for his children.

I must keep on steadily with Ted's Latin this fall and winter.

Micah is 10 years old and he had a coat geared to the season, a Patagonia winter jacket with a hood.