summer
Noun:
- The warmest season of the year: The period of the year between spring and autumn, characterized by the highest temperatures and longest days in a given hemisphere.
- A period of peak condition or flourishing: A time of greatest success, happiness, beauty, or vitality, often used metaphorically.
- (Poetic/Literary) A year of life: Used in some contexts to count years, especially in a person's life.
Verb:
- To spend the summer season in a particular place: To pass the summer months, often on vacation or in a specific location.
Noun:
- I love swimming in the lake during the summer.
- The summer of 1969 was a landmark period for space exploration.
- (Metaphorical) She was in the summer of her career, producing her best work.
- (Poetic) He was a man of eighty summers.
Verb:
- The family summers in a cottage by the sea every year.
- We plan to summer in the mountains to escape the city heat.
"Indian summer": A period of unseasonably warm, dry weather occurring in late autumn.
- We enjoyed a beautiful Indian summer well into October.
"Summer and winter": To endure through all seasons or conditions; to persist over a long time.
- They have summered and wintered in that old cabin for decades.
Summery (adj): Characteristic of or suitable for summer.
- She wore a light, summery dress.
Summerhouse (n): A small building in a garden, used for sitting in during fine weather.
- Summertime (n): The season of summer.
- In the summertime, the days are long.
- Noun (Season): Warm season, sunny season.
- Noun (Peak period): Heyday, prime, zenith, peak, floruit.
- Verb: Vacation, holiday, reside temporarily.
"Dog days of summer": The hottest, most sultry period of summer.
- During the dog days of summer, everyone moves slowly.
"One swallow does not a summer make": A proverb meaning that one piece of evidence is not enough to prove something is happening or true.
"To summer in...": A common construction indicating where one spends the summer.
- The wealthy family summers in the Hamptons.
"Summer's lease": A poetic phrase referring to summer's limited duration, famously used by Shakespeare ("Summer's lease hath all too short a date").
- He lamented that summer's lease was always too brief.
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the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty
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the golden summer of his life
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the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
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they spent a lazy summer at the shore
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spend the summer
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We summered in Kashmir
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