Winter

Noun

 * 1) Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as being from December 21 to March 20 in continental regions of the Northern Hemisphere or the months of June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, resulting in short days, and the time of year with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region.

Adjectives for Winter
withered; rough; tedious; dreadful; belated; rude; terrible; dreary; oblivious; laggard; bitter; brown; collapsing; stern; grand; dumb; dogged; brilliant; fatal; weeping; immortalizing; veritable; polar; trembling; monstrous; cheerless; unearthly; oppressive.

Verbs for Winter
approach—; evade—; survive—; usher in —; —benumbs; —bites; —blankets; — blasts; —blights; —cloaks; —continues; — declines; —exterminates; —frosts; —glistens; —grips; —impoverishes; —nips; — persists; —presses; —relaxes; —roars; — wanes; —whips across.

Derived terms

 * atomic winter
 * Austrian winter pea
 * beady-legged winter horse tick
 * bewinter
 * blackberry winter
 * blackthorn winter
 * buy straw hats in winter
 * Chinese winter squash
 * dogwood winter
 * early winter cress
 * East Indian winter jet
 * Fimbulwinter
 * forwintered
 * General winter
 * impact winter
 * in-winter
 * Kondratiev winter
 * love-in-winter
 * Madeira winter cherry
 * meteorological winter
 * mid-winter, midwinter
 * nuclear winter
 * out-winter, outwinter
 * overwinter
 * rere-winter
 * Russian winter
 * Soviet winter
 * Spencer's winter vomiting
 * summer and winter
 * twinter
 * unwinter
 * volcanic winter
 * Western Winter Blast
 * wild winterpea
 * winter aconite
 * winterage, winteridge
 * winter and winter
 * winter annual
 * winter apple
 * winter barley
 * winter-beaten
 * winter berry, winterberry
 * winter bloom, winter-bloom
 * winter break
 * winter bud
 * winter bunting
 * winter carnival
 * winter cherry
 * Winter Circle
 * winter city


 * winter-clad
 * winter-close
 * winter clover
 * winter cluster
 * Winter Coast
 * winter coat
 * winter corn
 * winter cough
 * winter count
 * winter country
 * winter-crack
 * winter cress, wintercress
 * winter crookneck, winter crookneck squash
 * winter crop
 * winter currant
 * winter daffodil


 * winter depression
 * winter duck
 * winter dysentery
 * winter eczema
 * wintered
 * winter egg
 * winter falcon
 * winter fallow
 * winter fat
 * winter-feed, winterfeed
 * winter fern
 * Winterfest
 * winter fever
 * winter finch
 * winter flounder
 * winter-flower
 * winter flowering cherry
 * Winter Games
 * winter garden
 * winter gillyflower
 * winter gnat
 * winter grape


 * winter greens
 * winter-ground
 * winter guard
 * winter gull, winter-gull
 * winter-hained
 * winter-hardy, winterhardy
 * winter hawk
 * winter hazel
 * winter heath
 * winter heliotrope
 * winter hellebore
 * winter hemp


 * Winter Hexagon
 * Winter Hill
 * winter holidays
 * winter-house
 * winter ice


 * winterim
 * winterise, winterize
 * winterish
 * winter itch
 * winter jasmine
 * winter-killed
 * winterling
 * winter lodge, winter lodgment
 * winter-long
 * winter-love
 * Winterlude
 * winter marjoram
 * winter melon, winter melon vine
 * winter mew, winter-mew
 * winter midge
 * winter monsoon
 * winter moth
 * winter mushroom
 * winter oats
 * winter oil
 * winter-old
 * Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics
 * winter ova
 * winter packet
 * winter peach
 * winter pear
 * winter-pick
 * winter-piece
 * winter-pride
 * winter-pround
 * winter purslane
 * winter quarters
 * winter queening
 * winter range
 * winter rape
 * winter redbird
 * winter-rig
 * winter road
 * winter rocket
 * winter rose
 * winter rules


 * winter-run fish
 * winter rye
 * winters
 * winter savory
 * winter scours
 * winter shad, winter-shad
 * winter sheldrake
 * winter sleep
 * winter sleeper
 * winter snipe
 * winter solstice
 * wintersome
 * winter sport
 * winter squash
 * winter-stall
 * winter storm
 * winter story
 * winter strawberry
 * winter sweet, winter-sweet, wintersweet
 * winter sweet marjoram
 * winter tale
 * winter teal
 * winter-thorn
 * winter tick
 * winter-tide, wintertide
 * winter-time, wintertime
 * winter tire, winter tyre
 * Winter Triangle
 * winter urn
 * winter vacation
 * Winterval
 * winter visitor
 * winter vomiting disease
 * winter wagtail
 * winterward
 * winterwards
 * winter warfare
 * winter wash
 * winter weather advisory
 * winter-weed, winterweed
 * winter-weight, winterweight
 * winter wheat
 * winter white Russian hamster
 * winter wicket
 * winter woolies, winter woollies
 * winter worm
 * winter worm summer grass
 * winter wren


 * wintrous

Related terms

 * Canella winterana
 * Drimys winteri
 * Hildewintera
 * Pseudowintera
 * Wintera
 * Winteraceae
 * Winterales
 * winteran
 * winterbourne


 * wintergreen
 * Winteria
 * winterly
 * Winterocereus
 * Winteroideae
 * Winter's bark, winter's bark
 * Winter's cinnamon
 * Winter's syndrome
 * wintery, wintry

Verb

 * 1)  To spend the winter (in a particular place).
 * ''When they retired, they hoped to winter in Florida.
 * 1)  To store something (for instance animals) somewhere over winter to protect it from cold.

Thesaurus
aestival, arctic, autumn, autumnal, bitter weather, bleak weather, boreal, brumal, buy time, canicular, cold snap, cold wave, cold weather, consume time, depth of winter, equinoctial, freeze, freezing weather, frost, hard winter, hibernal, hiemal, keep time, kill time, look for time, measure time, midsummer, midwinter, occupy time, out of season, pass time, put in time, race against time, raw weather, seasonal, snap, solstitial, spend time, spring, springlike, subzero weather, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery, take time, take up time, use time, vernal, weekend, winterlike, wintertide, wintertime, wintery, wintry, wintry weather, wintry wind, work against time, zero weather

Etymology
winter:

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: شتاء
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian:
 * Aromanian:
 * Avestan:
 * Azeri:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali: শীতকাল, শীত
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: hivern
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: gwav
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: inverno
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: חורף
 * Hindi: सर्दी, जाड़ा, शिशिर
 * Hittite:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: musim dingin
 * Interlingua: hiberno
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 冬
 * Kashubian:
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean: 겨울
 * Kurdish: zivistan, zistan,
 * Kyrgyz: кыш
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Luxembourgish: Wanter


 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese: xitwa
 * Manchu: tuweri
 * Manx: geurey
 * Maori: takurua
 * Middle French:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: vinter
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Glagolitic:
 * Old English:
 * Old French:
 * Old Irish:
 * Persian:
 * Polabian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Ripuarian: wengkter
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sami:
 * Northern:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: geamhradh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: зима
 * Roman: zima
 * Sicilian: nvèrnu
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kipupwe, majira ya baridi, kipindi cha baridi
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: зимистон
 * Telugu: చలికాలం (calikaalaM), శీతాకాలం (SeetaakaalaM)
 * Thai: ฤดูหนาว
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: gyş
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Urdu: سسر, جاڙا, سرما
 * Uyghur: قىش
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, đông
 * Volapük: nifüp
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: winter
 * Yiddish:

Verb

 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: viettää talvi, talvehtia
 * Greek: ξεχειμωνιάζω, διαχειμάζω, παραχειμάζω
 * Latvian: pārziemot


 * Russian:, проводить зиму
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Turkish: kışlamak


 * Finnish: pitää talven yli


 * Scottish Gaelic:

Anagrams

 * twiner

Etymology
From *wintar, from.

Noun

 * 1)  season

Etymology
From, probably representing a nasalised variant of ( > English water:, wet:). Cognate with Old Frisian winter:, Old Saxon undefined: (Dutch winter:), Old High German wintar: (German Winter:), Old Norse vetr: (Swedish vinter:) and Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌽𐍄𐍂𐌿𐍃; and, outside the Germanic languages, with Latin unda: and Lithuanian vanduo:.

Descendants

 * English: winter

Noun
( winters)