summer

/'sʌmə/

Thân thiện

The children play outside on a warm summer day.

Definition

1. 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.

2. Verb:

   • To spend the summer season in a particular place: To pass the summer months, often on vacation or in a specific location.

Examples of Usage

• 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.

Advanced Usage

• "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.

Variants and Related Words

• 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.

Synonyms

• Noun (Season): Warm season, sunny season.
• Noun (Peak period): Heyday, prime, zenith, peak, floruit.
• Verb: Vacation, holiday, reside temporarily.

Related Phrases

• "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.

Idioms

• "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.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty
   • the golden summer of his life
2. the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
   • they spent a lazy summer at the shore

Verb

1. spend the summer
   • We summered in Kashmir

Từ đồng nghĩa

• summertime