summersadv.
/ˈsʌməz/, U.S. /ˈsəmərz/ U.S.
During the summer; each summer (for a number of years).
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the world > time > period > year > season > [adverb] > towards or during summer
summerly1600
summer-longa1743
summerward1859
summers1869
summerwards1870
1869 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 605/1 If the flies would hold together,—and they should hold if mortise and iron could hold them,—they might be at work summers and winters, days and nights, storing up Power for us.
1893 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly July 33/2 Jedge, he wanted to build a house here an' come here summers, but his wife, she wouldn't hear of it.
1907 ‘M. Twain’ Christian Sci. II. viii. 235 It [sc. a local Christian Science church] can appoint its own fan-distributors, summers.
1936 H. W. Horwill in S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XLV. 192 A peculiar use of the plural form is illustrated in..‘A niece of theirs had earned her way through College by waiting on the Atkins-Smythes' table, summers’.
2006 York (Maine) Weekly 22 Feb. c2/1 Tom would end up teaching and coaching sports..at Portsmouth High School for 26 years..while, summers, he'd work at the Portsmouth Yacht Club.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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