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noun ˈsʌməˈsəmər 1The warmest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from June to August and in the southern hemisphere from December to February. this plant flowers in late summer as modifier summer holidays figurative the golden summer of her life Example sentencesExamples - Although the number of new cases is declining, cattle are about to be let out of winter quarters and sheep are desperate to be moved to summer pastures.
- Scorching temperatures and bright sunshine have also given a much needed boost to seaside resorts around Kerry, which have suffered a lot because of dull summers in recent years.
- This site has a humid continental climate with warm summers, cool winters and no distinct dry season.
- School finished up for the summer holidays on Wednesday June 26th, with a party for the children.
- For the first seven years, I spent my summers here on my own, looking after the house and garden, because Peter was still working in Hamburg.
- My friend is a retired physician who spends his summers in Minnesota and winters in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.
- The summers of recent years have also been very disappointing and this has emphasised the need to get amenities in place to keep tourists entertained when the weather is bad.
- According to records, June is the wettest summer month receiving an average of 58.5mm of rain.
- The Mediterranean climate has long dry sunny warm summers, and the winters often see periods of intense rainfall.
- In the four summers I worked there, I never once heard of a customer getting the wrong product, or in the wrong amount.
- But all summer he feared for his life, such was the level of noise outside his house and the number of attacks on his home.
- It has turned quickly to summer here too with weather in the 70s and 80s.
- The inland region has a continental climate with very cold winters, hot, humid summers, and spring and autumn seasons that are often rainy.
- Fermi generally spent his summers at Los Alamos.
- With Christmas almost over, our thoughts will soon be turning to summer package holidays.
- Some summers I do most of my fishing only after the sun goes down.
- Reagan loved living in Dixon, where he spent the rest of his school years, working summers as a lifeguard at a Dixon park along the Rock River.
- The southern tip of South America is chilly, even in the summer month of December.
- The family usually spends summer in Dubrovnik so that both children can see their grandparents.
- Much of southern Australia experiences a typical Mediterranean climate with hot dry summers and predominantly winter rainfall.
- 1.1Astronomy The period from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox.
Example sentencesExamples - Simply put, you are more likely to see a lunar eclipse during a long winter night than a short summer night.
- The Autumnal Equinox signals the end of the summer months and the beginning of winter.
- The five days that weren't included were in the middle of the summer when Sirius, the dog star, can be seen near the rising sun.
- 1.2summersliterary Years, especially of a person's age.
a girl of sixteen or seventeen summers Example sentencesExamples - Even though he is eight summers everyone knows he is nay a fighter.
- At the age of eight summers his father had been assassinated.
- After sixteen summers a child of the plain, no matter what gender or tribe, goes through the rite of passage.
verb ˈsʌməˈsəmər 1no object, with adverbial of place Spend the summer in a particular place. well over 100 birds summered there in 1976 Example sentencesExamples - He had homes in New York, where he wintered, and in Florida, where he summered, and he moved in a circle with Babe Ruth and Errol Flynn, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
- The family lived at first in prosperous circumstances, wintering in Smyrna and summering at the seaside village called Skala.
- But here there is a bit of a paradox, for we should be at the halfway point of the migration, meaning that we should be summering or wintering and then heading back to our point of origin.
- Birds summering in northern Europe, where waters are closed by ice in winter, show the strongest migratory movements.
- In that year, Trelawney, Shelley, Byron, and some other friends were summering in Italy.
- I know students who summered in Israel, volunteers on collective farms working to build a spiritually-based socialism.
- My hotel room here is stylish, in that faded Mediterranean way I came to know so well while summering with my family in Majorca.
- Similarly in the remote Wakhan corridor in the North East of Afghanistan a nomad people who summered there were trapped when the passes were mined.
- These birds summer in Alberta Canada and winter at the Aransas Wildlife Refuge in Texas.
- Fifteen or twenty years later, I spent an hour driving my wife and son around the little twisty roads of Stocksund, trying to find the house we'd summered in but you can't reach that country when you're driving.
- She's a rich kid, summering at the family's mansion in North Carolina while he is a local labourer and poet.
- Back from summering in their Malibu palace, Mary and Vince Kickerillo joined the party along with Regina Rogers, Renee and Ben Danziger, Sybil Balasco, and Jerome and Nadine Moon of Who Made the Cake!
- The family lived in Budapest and summered on the family estates in the southern Carpathians - which Patrick Leigh Fermor has called ‘the most resented frontier in Europe’.
- Diane and John Connelly are seen toasting Patsy and Greg Fourticq at O'Rourke's on their return to Houston after summering in Colorado Springs, Colo.
- Sources say Carter just cancelled those long-held reservations and instead will be summering at a friend's home in Tuscany.
- I felt that even then, even though the boys had summered and were coming back, they were still massively disappointed by the ending to the season.
- She turns out to be Allison Nelson, the daughter of Charleston old money, summering in the country.
- 1.1with object Pasture (cattle) for the summer.
Example sentencesExamples - My husband and his father raised beef cattle for many years and they summered the cattle on a piece of mountain property which they owned.
- They summered the cattle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of eastern California and then moved them each fall to winter pasture in the lower elevations of western Nevada where the home ranch is located.
Origin Old English sumor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zomer, German Sommer, also to Sanskrit samā 'year'. Rhymes bummer, comer, drummer, hummer, midsummer, mummer, plumber, rummer, strummer, summa summer2(also summer tree) noun ˈsʌməˈsəmər A horizontal bearing beam, especially one supporting joists or rafters. Example sentencesExamples - Overhead, in the center, was the summer-tree, a timber 20x14 inches, into which the joist was framed, planed (and so was the under side of the chamber floor), with no lath or plaster.
Origin Middle English: from Old French somier 'packhorse', from late Latin sagmarius, from Greek sagma 'packsaddle'. nounˈsəmərˈsəmər 1The warmest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from June to August and in the southern hemisphere from December to February. the plant flowers in late summer as modifier summer vacation figurative the golden summer of her life Example sentencesExamples - It has turned quickly to summer here too with weather in the 70s and 80s.
- Some summers I do most of my fishing only after the sun goes down.
- The Mediterranean climate has long dry sunny warm summers, and the winters often see periods of intense rainfall.
- With Christmas almost over, our thoughts will soon be turning to summer package holidays.
- In the four summers I worked there, I never once heard of a customer getting the wrong product, or in the wrong amount.
- School finished up for the summer holidays on Wednesday June 26th, with a party for the children.
- The summers of recent years have also been very disappointing and this has emphasised the need to get amenities in place to keep tourists entertained when the weather is bad.
- For the first seven years, I spent my summers here on my own, looking after the house and garden, because Peter was still working in Hamburg.
- Although the number of new cases is declining, cattle are about to be let out of winter quarters and sheep are desperate to be moved to summer pastures.
- Reagan loved living in Dixon, where he spent the rest of his school years, working summers as a lifeguard at a Dixon park along the Rock River.
- The inland region has a continental climate with very cold winters, hot, humid summers, and spring and autumn seasons that are often rainy.
- My friend is a retired physician who spends his summers in Minnesota and winters in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.
- The family usually spends summer in Dubrovnik so that both children can see their grandparents.
- This site has a humid continental climate with warm summers, cool winters and no distinct dry season.
- Scorching temperatures and bright sunshine have also given a much needed boost to seaside resorts around Kerry, which have suffered a lot because of dull summers in recent years.
- Much of southern Australia experiences a typical Mediterranean climate with hot dry summers and predominantly winter rainfall.
- But all summer he feared for his life, such was the level of noise outside his house and the number of attacks on his home.
- According to records, June is the wettest summer month receiving an average of 58.5mm of rain.
- The southern tip of South America is chilly, even in the summer month of December.
- Fermi generally spent his summers at Los Alamos.
- 1.1Astronomy The period from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox.
Example sentencesExamples - The five days that weren't included were in the middle of the summer when Sirius, the dog star, can be seen near the rising sun.
- The Autumnal Equinox signals the end of the summer months and the beginning of winter.
- Simply put, you are more likely to see a lunar eclipse during a long winter night than a short summer night.
- 1.2summersliterary Years, especially of a person's age.
a girl of sixteen or seventeen summers Example sentencesExamples - Even though he is eight summers everyone knows he is nay a fighter.
- At the age of eight summers his father had been assassinated.
- After sixteen summers a child of the plain, no matter what gender or tribe, goes through the rite of passage.
verbˈsəmərˈsəmər 1no object, with adverbial of place Spend the summer in a particular place. well over 100 birds summered there in 1976 Example sentencesExamples - The family lived in Budapest and summered on the family estates in the southern Carpathians - which Patrick Leigh Fermor has called ‘the most resented frontier in Europe’.
- He had homes in New York, where he wintered, and in Florida, where he summered, and he moved in a circle with Babe Ruth and Errol Flynn, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
- She's a rich kid, summering at the family's mansion in North Carolina while he is a local labourer and poet.
- These birds summer in Alberta Canada and winter at the Aransas Wildlife Refuge in Texas.
- The family lived at first in prosperous circumstances, wintering in Smyrna and summering at the seaside village called Skala.
- Fifteen or twenty years later, I spent an hour driving my wife and son around the little twisty roads of Stocksund, trying to find the house we'd summered in but you can't reach that country when you're driving.
- I felt that even then, even though the boys had summered and were coming back, they were still massively disappointed by the ending to the season.
- In that year, Trelawney, Shelley, Byron, and some other friends were summering in Italy.
- Diane and John Connelly are seen toasting Patsy and Greg Fourticq at O'Rourke's on their return to Houston after summering in Colorado Springs, Colo.
- But here there is a bit of a paradox, for we should be at the halfway point of the migration, meaning that we should be summering or wintering and then heading back to our point of origin.
- Sources say Carter just cancelled those long-held reservations and instead will be summering at a friend's home in Tuscany.
- Similarly in the remote Wakhan corridor in the North East of Afghanistan a nomad people who summered there were trapped when the passes were mined.
- I know students who summered in Israel, volunteers on collective farms working to build a spiritually-based socialism.
- Back from summering in their Malibu palace, Mary and Vince Kickerillo joined the party along with Regina Rogers, Renee and Ben Danziger, Sybil Balasco, and Jerome and Nadine Moon of Who Made the Cake!
- She turns out to be Allison Nelson, the daughter of Charleston old money, summering in the country.
- My hotel room here is stylish, in that faded Mediterranean way I came to know so well while summering with my family in Majorca.
- Birds summering in northern Europe, where waters are closed by ice in winter, show the strongest migratory movements.
- 1.1with object Pasture (cattle) for the summer.
Example sentencesExamples - My husband and his father raised beef cattle for many years and they summered the cattle on a piece of mountain property which they owned.
- They summered the cattle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of eastern California and then moved them each fall to winter pasture in the lower elevations of western Nevada where the home ranch is located.
Origin Old English sumor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zomer, German Sommer, also to Sanskrit samā ‘year’. nounˈsəmərˈsəmər 1A horizontal bearing beam, especially one supporting joists or rafters. Example sentencesExamples - Overhead, in the center, was the summer-tree, a timber 20x14 inches, into which the joist was framed, planed (and so was the under side of the chamber floor), with no lath or plaster.
- 1.1 A capstone that supports an arch or lintel.
- 1.2 A lintel.
Origin Middle English: from Old French somier ‘packhorse’, from late Latin sagmarius, from Greek sagma ‘packsaddle’. |