winter

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winter

A family builds a snowman together on a winter afternoon.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • The coldest season of the year: The period of the year occurring between autumn and spring, characterized by the shortest days, lowest average temperatures, and, in many regions, snow or ice.
    • A year, especially in the life of a person (poetic/literary): Used to represent a year, often in the context of age or experience.

  2. Verb:

    • To spend or pass the winter in a particular place: To stay in a location during the winter months.
    • To keep or maintain (animals, plants) through the winter: To provide care for livestock or plants during the cold season.
Examples of Usage

  • Noun:

    • I love the quiet beauty of winter.
    • The old sailor had seen sixty winters. (literary usage meaning 'years')

  • Verb:

    • Many birds winter in warmer climates.
    • We winter our horses in the sheltered valley.
Advanced Usage
  • "To overwinter": To remain or survive through the winter.
    • The research team overwintered at the Antarctic station.
  • "Dead of winter": The middle of winter, when conditions are coldest and most severe.
    • The expedition was launched in the dead of winter.
  • "Winter of discontent" (idiom): A period of unhappiness and unrest. (Derived from Shakespeare's ).
    • The strikes marked a winter of discontent for the government.
Variants and Related Words
  • Winterize (verb): To prepare something (like a car or house) for winter weather.
    • We need to winterize the cabin before the first snow.
  • Wintry (adjective): Characteristic of winter, especially in being cold, bleak, or forbidding.
    • A wintry landscape covered in frost.
  • Hibernate (verb): To spend the winter in a dormant state (for animals). This is a related biological concept.
    • Bears hibernate in dens during winter.
Synonyms
  • Noun: Cold season, yuletide (specifically referring to the Christmas period within winter).
  • Verb: Hibernate, overwinter, hole up.
Related Phrases
  • Winter over: Similar to 'overwinter'; to stay through the winter.
    • The ship was trapped and had to winter over in the ice.
  • Winter through: To endure or last through the winter.
    • With enough supplies, we can winter through the storms.
Related Idioms
  • To be snowed under: To be overwhelmed with work. (While not containing "winter," it uses a winter-related metaphor).
    • I'm completely snowed under with paperwork this week.
  • To put something on ice: To delay or postpone something. (Uses a winter-related metaphor).
    • Let's put that proposal on ice until after the holidays.
winter

A family builds a snowman together on a winter afternoon.

Noun
  1. the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox
Verb
  1. spend the winter
    • We wintered on the Riviera
    • Shackleton's men overwintered on Elephant Island

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