winter1 nounwinter2 verb
winterwin‧ter1 /ˈwɪntə $ -ər/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countable, uncountable] 
WORD ORIGINwinter1
Origin:
Old EnglishEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- After the hard winter of 1848, the family immigrated to Pittsburgh, where her sisters lived.
- Both in summer and winter thousands came to the mountains, returning home with yoghurt, cheese and other products.
- In winter the frozen river is the only route into Zanskar.
- In winter, rice fields were bare and brown, but there was the anticipation of spring planting just around the corner.
- In the winter, it had taken several days at room temperature before they showed any signs of life.
- In the summer, open windows and in the winter, turn on the heating so it is warm and welcoming.
- It was winter at last and a cool breeze blew at night.
- The compartments have little curtains in the windows; the lamps are lit; it's eleven a.m. but still winter.
WORD SETS
AD, advance, verbafter, prepositionafternoon, nounalarm, nounalarm clock, nouna.m., Anno Domini, annual, adjectiveApril, nounAsh Wednesday, nounAug., August, nounautumn, nounautumnal, adjectivebank holiday, nounBC, BCE, biannual, adjectivebicentenary, nounbicentennial, nounbiennial, adjectivebimonthly, adjectivebirthday, nounbiweekly, adjectivebonfire night, nounBoxing Day, nounBritish Summer Time, nounBST, nouncalendar, nouncalendar month, nouncalendar year, nouncarriage clock, nouncentenary, nouncentury, nounChristmas, nounChristmas Day, nounChristmas Eve, nounChristmastime, nounchronograph, nounchronological, adjectivechronometer, nouncircadian, adjectiveclock, nouncrystal, nouncuckoo clock, nouncycle, nouncyclic, adjectivedaily, adjectivedaily, adverbdate, noundate, verbdawn, nounday, nounDec., decade, nounDecember, noundiamond anniversary, noundiamond jubilee, noundinnertime, noundiurnal, adjectived.o.b., due date, noundusk, nounface, nounFather's Day, nounfeast, nounFebruary, nounfortnightly, adjectiveFourth of July, the, Fri., Friday, nounGood Friday, nounGreenwich Mean Time, nounGregorian calendar, nounguy, nounGuy Fawkes Night, nounhalf-hourly, adjectivehalf-yearly, adjectiveHalloween, nounhand, nounHanukkah, nounharvest festival, nounHogmanay, nounhorn, nounhour, nounhourglass, nounhour hand, nounhr, Independence Day, nounJan., January, nounjubilee, nounJuly, nounJune, nounLabor Day, nounleap year, nounlunar month, nounmainspring, nounman-hour, nounMar., March, nounMardi Gras, nounmarket day, nounMaundy Thursday, nounMay, nounMay Day, nounMichaelmas, nounmidday, nounmiddle age, nounmiddle-aged, adjectivemidnight, nounMidsummer Day, nounmidweek, adjectivemillennium, nounmin., minute hand, nounMon., Monday, nounmonth, nounmorn, nounmorning, nounMothering Sunday, nounMother's Day, nounmovable feast, nounnew moon, nounNew Year, nounNew Year's Day, nounNew Year's Eve, nounnight, nounnightfall, nounnighttime, nounnocturnal, adjectiveNoel, nounnoon, nounnoonday, adjectiveNov., November, nounOct., October, nounp.a., Pancake Day, nounPDT, penultimate, adjectiveper annum, adverbper diem, adverbperiodic, adjectivep.m., PST, public holiday, nounquarter, nounquotidian, adjectiveRemembrance Day, nounSat., Saturday, nounschoolday, nounseason, nounsecond, nounsecond hand, nounself-winding, adjectiveSeptember, nounshockproof, adjectivesilver anniversary, nounsilver jubilee, nounsilver wedding anniversary, nounsolar year, nounsolstice, nounspring, nounspringtime, nounstandard time, nounstopwatch, nounsummer, nounsummer solstice, nounsummertime, nounsummery, adjectiveSun., Sunday, nounsundown, nounsunrise, nounsunset, nounsun-up, nountercentenary, nounThanksgiving, nounthirty, numberThursday, nountime, nountime, verbtimepiece, nountimer, nountime signal, nountime warp, nountime zone, nountoday, adverbtoday, nountomorrow, adverbtomorrow, nountonight, adverbtonight, nountriennial, adjectiveTuesday, nountwilight, nounWed., Wednesday, nounweek, nounweekday, nounweekend, nounweekly, adjectiveweeknight, nounWhit, nounWhitsun, nounwinter, nounwintertime, nounwk., wristwatch, nounyear, nounyesterday, adverbyr., Yule, nounYuletide, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYadjectives
the harsh Canadian winters
· That winter was particularly cold.
(=very cold)· In a hard winter, many birds starve.
(=not very cold)· Winters here are generally mild.
(=lasting a long time)· The long winter finally came to an end.
winter + NOUN· During the winter months the town is often cut off.
(=designed for winter)· I need a new winter coat.
phrases (=in the middle of the winter)· Even in the depths of winter, the harbour is never completely frozen.
· She dreaded the onset of winter.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· The shops are already full of winter clothes.
· You’ll need a good winter coat in Canada.
· A cold winter will increase oil consumption.
· The mountainsides were blanketed with spring flowers.
the harsh Canadian winters· Why not try a winter holiday for a change?
· It’s very cold here during the winter months.
· They set off on a beautiful spring morning.
· Her eyes were as blue as the summer sky.
(=the longest or shortest day of the year)
(=skiing, ice skating etc)· More and more people are taking up winter sports.
· People fear there may be more flooding when the winter storms hit.
· She was sitting in the garden, enjoying the spring sunshine.
(=the clothes you have for a particular time of year)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· These depths should also prevent the pond from freezing solid in a cold winter, which would kill any fish.· Legend has it that a poor couple gave him shelter one cold winter night.· Their departure was hastened by an abnormally cold winter: one shudderingly cold day succeeded another.· Many market analysts expect the sector to continue to climb in 1996, benefiting in part from the colder weather this winter.· A delicate plant, the Pinot Noir is difficult to nurture through the freezing cold winters of Champagne.· A hearty soup for a cold fall or winter supper always seems like the right ticket.· But, I just found it too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter.
· True, but few produce so amazing a second flush in late autumn or early winter.· In the early winter darkness of this January day the crowds were still there when the weather changed and turned nasty.· They should either be grazed insitu in the autumn or early winter or, if clamped, fed before Christmas.· Mine flowered from early winter until early spring and looked gorgeous all the time.
· Woody herbs, like thyme, marjoram and winter savory stay green in all but the hardest winters and clip into tiny hedging.· There are about six types of high-gluten flour, some made with hard spring wheat and some with hard winter wheat.· Seb saw little of the Wychwood gipsies during the hard winter months that followed Christmas.· After the hard winter of 1848, the family immigrated to Pittsburgh, where her sisters lived.· It looked as though it would be a hard winter.· But it has been an unusually hard winter season, too.· Let the hard winter come! he thought, whistling the morning anthem.
· Some people are looking forward to less harsh winters and longer, hotter summers.· I count the bare spots in the flower beds, where tender plants have been killed by the harsh winter.· Your plants will need time to become really well established to give them a better chance of surviving a harsh winter.· A harsh Manchurian winter was just beginning.· Small mammals avoid the harshest winter conditions by living within or under the snow.· Had they been creeping south with the harsher winters?· The shipment was greeted with delight by the local community where people have died of starvation during the harsh highland winter.· With limited exceptions, shops and lodging facilities are shuttered during the harsh winters.
· Bench grafting Cuttings of both rootstocks and scion are taken in autumn and stored until mid or late winter.· Major pruning is done in late winter.· Near the coast also the sea air reduces the cold of late winter and spring.· One day during the late winter or early spring of 1920, Margarett picked up the telephone.· Surely it was no later than the winter of 1817?· Irony abounds: In late winter 1992, Hillary Clinton soldiered on through public mortification toward the greater goal of the presidency.· Females give birth to as many as five offspring in late winter, after a gestation period of up to 10 months.· In late winter, Louise collapsed.
· Old masters to study. Long winter days with nothing else to do.· During the long winters, the people gathered around fires in the lodges and told stories.· A Long winter Autumn ended all too quickly.· Conversely the long winters allowed considerable time for off-farm work, particularly in the forests.· For many of us, these long winter nights stir up painful memories and fearful thoughts.· The long winter evenings, I was told, were spent extracting the seed from the heads.· The long dry hot winter, as Oliver said, was over.
· None of the members has seen such mild weather in winter.· Thus far it has been a relatively mild winter in Baltimore, which is causing the usual whining from the Snow Freaks.· It is warm all year round, with warm summers, mild winters and moderate rainfall.· We were lucky, it was the mildest winter in years.· It is suited to the warmer climates and milder winters.· But I think the pentas, which will pull through a milder winter, may need to be replaced.· It is a land of gentle summers and mild winters.
· Tufted Duck are unusual on salt water, except in severe winter weather.· The Northeastern markets, though, are more susceptible to severe winter weather.· Some of these isolated populations are subject to predation, others to starvation, flooding, severe winters or summer drought.· The leaves are evergreen or semi-evergreen since they can be heavily defoliated in severe winters.· Release of the report was delayed two days by a severe winter storm.· In a severe winter, the figure can reach 80 percent.· Federal Express cited the impact of severe winter weather on its delivery service.
· It was warm in the winter with the coals making fiery caves and purple tunnels for magic stories.· The manufacturer claims that Polarfleece is warm in winter and cool in summer.· Does it operate efficiently and keep the house warm in winter?· Today is a rare warm day in winter, in the mid-fifties.· It is air and moisture permeable, therefore cool in summer and warm in winter.· And what if that leads into another warm winter?· Its dense growth provides nesting places for a range of bird life as well as warm cover in winter or roosting small birds.
NOUN· He's got his big winter coat on with silver buttons and his tall hat.· When I married Martin, he paid off all my debts, poor dear, and bought me a new winter coat.· The humans had grown their winter coats, and the high buildings trembled in the tight grip of their stress equations.· She could fill the second suitcase with her winter coat.· In her winter coat she appeared to be little more than a central pole with a tent draped from her shoulders.· Their hair was in raggedy patches, for they were molting their thick winter coats.· In addition, a wintry spell before the Cesarewitch was prompting our runners to start donning their winter coats before they set off.· Amy needs shoes, boots, a winter coat.
· Just think of those winter evenings when you came home with feet like blocks of ice.· It was a cozy winter evening, just a group of quilters sitting around discussing ice damming.· We also make use of the photo-copying facilities and use their premises for our winter evening meetings.· There was so little daylight it felt like a late winter evening.· Long winter evenings by the fire With Proust and cream of carrot soup.· While away those dark winter evenings and exercise the grey matter at the same time!· But one winter evening, Charles Henstock paid a call upon his friend Harold Shoosmith.
· As the coal went down over the winter months, these boards would be taken away to lower the height.· During the winter months, an above-ground replica of an underground Royal Observer Corps bunker will be erected in the display hangar.· Collect and dry your own herbs in summer for use during the winter months.· JULIE-ANN, 18, needs some one to keep her sane during the long winter months. 18+ males preferred.· This is when the pilots who have been hibernating during the winter months get their gliders out and start flying again.· During the winter months, those trying to sell convertibles have little in their favour.· They are often sold in the winter months from small casks kept on bar counters.· A thermal blanket of warm air protects the vines in the winter months and hastens maturity through the summer.
· On winter night shifts it was at its worst.· Late that winter night his struggle ended.· The darkness of the long winter night had settled when the train came to an untidy halt at Pot'ma station.· Each day seems as long as a year and the winter nights drag on like an exile.· Boas normally mate during the winter nights.· For many of us, these long winter nights stir up painful memories and fearful thoughts.· There is no heat on sub-freezing winter nights except from whatever brush can be built into fire.· Legend has it that a poor couple gave him shelter one cold winter night.
· A mild example of this from antiquity was the Roman Saturnalia at the time of the winter solstice.· Since both CHANike and Christmas were originally winter solstice celebrations, they often coincide and compete.· At the winter solstice two daggers touch the outsides of the spiral.· The winter solstice was only three days away, and the urge to have a raucous good time among friends took hold.
· Our only hope is a good old winter storm over the Christmas holiday.· A winter storm watch was posted for the Lake Tahoe area and northward above the 8, 000-foot level Wednesday.· Fertility is not restored until the winter storms stir the waters again.· Fortunately, the house is strongly built, and is not damaged even by the worst winter storms.· The wind and surf were to ease somewhat Tuesday but the National Weather Service warned of winter storm conditions in the mountains.· Fenced lands tended to be unevenly grazed, and fences were obvious hazards to cattle in winter storms.· Release of the report was delayed two days by a severe winter storm.
· The turnstones are winter visitors to Britain.· The three native species are all winter visitors in the central and southern parts of the region.· The arrival and departure of winter visitors overlaps passage, but peak winter counts are usually made in December or January.· Passage movements and the arrival and departure of winter visitors are difficult to separate.· The local breeding stock appears to disperse in July and August and winter visitors may start to arrive in September.· Peak numbers occur between December and February, and most winter visitors have departed by late March.· By the end of March the bulk of our winter visitors have departed.
· Oxfam say woman and children are particularly at risk from the bitter winter weather.· Application First ask the students to share their experiences with winter weather, ice, and snow.· Tufted Duck are unusual on salt water, except in severe winter weather.· Federal Express cited the impact of severe winter weather on its delivery service.· The bad winter weather with no guaranteed snow cover could prove to be this expansion's downfall.· It will lack both the severe winter weather and the potential for combat of the Balkans.· Aapri's new Facial Wash Gel can help you to help your skin combat the winter weather.· There is just time to apply a coat before the winter weather really sets in.
· The fields he could see from the window of Kirsham primary school rustled with winter wheat.· There are about six types of high-gluten flour, some made with hard spring wheat and some with hard winter wheat.· But, under winter wheat, the income would be £9600.· In addition, a 7 percent increase in the winter wheat crop acres raised hope stockpiles would rise later this year.· Another herbicide, Isoproturon, is in much wider use as a means of controlling the blackgrass weed which affects winter wheat.· Already the young farmer has lost more than half his winter wheat crop to a crippling drought.· The ground used was where herbicide in the previous winter wheat had failed to provide any real control of blackgrass.
VERB· They spent their long winters under a deep blanket of snow, singing and creating ghost stories.· He decided to spend the winter in Rome.· A tubercular kidney was diagnosed and Laidler was advised to give up office work and to spend his winters abroad.· Miss Buechler is talking about the pilgrims coming to a rocky shore to spend a winter of hardship in the new land.· Ian has spent the winter season rebuilding his machine to make it one of the fastest 600s on the grid.· I spent the winter mostly shivering.· As many as 80,000 knot spend their winters here - that's around a quarter of the total population wintering in Britain.· I spent most of the winter working alone in the barn.
· An established hebe may survive all but the worst winters, but a young plant may succumb to moderately severe weather.· First there are infective larvae which developed during the previous grazing season and have survived on pasture over winter.· How do aquatic animals survive the winter in relation to ice? 8.· Tatty and faded now, it had survived hibernation through the winter.· Families survive winter with a freezer full of elk steaks and deer salami.· Some groups may survive the winter, once the old people have died off.· It will stay there now until next May, surviving the deep winter cold in an antifreeze solution of sweet glycerol.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the winter solstice
- Even in the dead of night this was Frankie's house.
- I felt as if I had been violated in the dead of night.
- My house feels solid and safe and orderly; hyacinths and narcissus bloom indoors here even in the dead of winter.
- People moving about in the dead of night, poisons being administered in a locked room.
- Purple coneflower, a favored plant of summer, finds a second season in the dead of winter.
- She imagined Anastasia, Peace and Calm meeting in the dead of night to plan just this scene between them.
- The brave soldier was alone but stood his ground after confronting the men in the dead of night.
- The gangs carry out their raids in the dead of night, kitted out with night-sights and camouflage gear.
- All the windows were shuttered as if we were in the depths of winter.
- Always try to see a prospective home in the depths of winter.
- Besides I don't think the gondoliers work in the depths of winter.
- Even in the depths of winter the sea ice is never a complete cover.
- Sexy underwear's got nothing on thermal britches and vests when it comes to keeping you cosy in the depths of winter.
- This lightning campaign undertaken in the depths of winter while most people were still celebrating Christmas had the desired effect.
- After a hard frost the passage walls sweated and water trickled down the corridors.
- All in all, the young have the odds stacked against them, especially in a hard winter.
- It looked as though it would be a hard winter.
WORD FAMILYnounwintermidwinteradjectivewintryverbwinter
the season after autumn and before spring, when the weather is coldest: Soon it will be winter.in (the) winter It usually snows here in the winter.this/last/next winter Fuel supplies could be seriously disrupted this winter.GRAMMAR: Patterns with winterin winter/in the winter• You use in winter or in the winter when saying that something happens at that time: · It often snows here in winter.· We’re going skiing in the winter.last winter/this winter etcDon’t use in with these words:• You say last winter: · Last winter the temperature fell to minus 20 degrees. ✗Don’t say: In last winter the temperature fell to minus 20 degrees.• You say this winter: · We’ve had a lot of snow this winter. ✗Don’t say: We’ve had a lot of snow in this winter.• You say next winter: · Next winter she will turn 18. ✗Don’t say: In next winter she will turn 18.• You say that winter: · The lake froze over that winter. ✗Don’t say: The lake froze over in that winter.COLLOCATIONSadjectivescold· That winter was particularly cold.severe/hard/harsh (=very cold)· In a hard winter, many birds starve.mild (=not very cold)· Winters here are generally mild.long (=lasting a long time)· The long winter finally came to an end.winter + NOUNthe winter months· During the winter months the town is often cut off.winter coat/shoes (=designed for winter)· I need a new winter coat.phrasesin the depths of winter (=in the middle of the winter)· Even in the depths of winter, the harbour is never completely frozen.the onset of winter· She dreaded the onset of winter.winter1 nounwinter2 verb
winterwinter2 verb [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] formal VERB TABLE
winter
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | winter |
| he, she, it | winters | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | wintered |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have wintered |
| he, she, it | has wintered | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had wintered |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will winter |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have wintered |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am wintering |
| he, she, it | is wintering | |
| you, we, they | are wintering | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was wintering |
| you, we, they | were wintering | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been wintering |
| he, she, it | has been wintering | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been wintering |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be wintering |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been wintering |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- About 100 are now found wintering fairly regularly in Bosham Creek.
- As many as 80,000 knot spend their winters here - that's around a quarter of the total population wintering in Britain.
- Except in very cold weather, however, the numbers wintering in Sussex are never very large.
- Maynard Bolster, wintering from Kalispell, Mont., is in his customary seat, dutifully keeping score.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES the harsh Canadian winters
· The shops are already full of winter clothes.
· You’ll need a good winter coat in Canada.
· A cold winter will increase oil consumption.
· The mountainsides were blanketed with spring flowers.
the harsh Canadian winters· Why not try a winter holiday for a change?
· It’s very cold here during the winter months.
· They set off on a beautiful spring morning.
· Her eyes were as blue as the summer sky.
(=the longest or shortest day of the year)
(=skiing, ice skating etc)· More and more people are taking up winter sports.
· People fear there may be more flooding when the winter storms hit.
· She was sitting in the garden, enjoying the spring sunshine.
(=the clothes you have for a particular time of year)
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the winter solstice
- Even in the dead of night this was Frankie's house.
- I felt as if I had been violated in the dead of night.
- My house feels solid and safe and orderly; hyacinths and narcissus bloom indoors here even in the dead of winter.
- People moving about in the dead of night, poisons being administered in a locked room.
- Purple coneflower, a favored plant of summer, finds a second season in the dead of winter.
- She imagined Anastasia, Peace and Calm meeting in the dead of night to plan just this scene between them.
- The brave soldier was alone but stood his ground after confronting the men in the dead of night.
- The gangs carry out their raids in the dead of night, kitted out with night-sights and camouflage gear.
- All the windows were shuttered as if we were in the depths of winter.
- Always try to see a prospective home in the depths of winter.
- Besides I don't think the gondoliers work in the depths of winter.
- Even in the depths of winter the sea ice is never a complete cover.
- Sexy underwear's got nothing on thermal britches and vests when it comes to keeping you cosy in the depths of winter.
- This lightning campaign undertaken in the depths of winter while most people were still celebrating Christmas had the desired effect.
- After a hard frost the passage walls sweated and water trickled down the corridors.
- All in all, the young have the odds stacked against them, especially in a hard winter.
- It looked as though it would be a hard winter.
WORD FAMILYnounwintermidwinteradjectivewintryverbwinter
to spend the winter somewhere: Last year, over 11,000 Canadians wintered in Arizona.