summer

Forms

1.year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.(humorous)
- He was barely eighteen summers old.
- She had seen not more than twenty summers.
2.Most flourishing, happy, or beautiful period; golden age, prime.
- In the summer, I go to the sea. In the winter, I go to the mountains.
3.Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- In the summer, I go to the sea. In the winter, I go to the mountains.
4.One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as spanning either the period between the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox, or the months of June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.
- I'm going to the Gambia in the summer.
- Gradually, the end of summer hove into sight.
- A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.

1.To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.
- She had summered in England and France and Germany and Switzerland. She had wintered in Italy and Egypt and India and Spain.
- For he was an oddity, a black multimillionaire who summered on the Riviera, had an apartment in Paris and a penthouse, in a building he owned, high above Sugar Hill.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Indo-European *s(e)m-eh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-h₂-ór-o-der.

Proto-Germanic *sumaraz

Proto-West Germanic *sumar

Old English sumor

Middle English somer

English summer