Summer

Noun

 * 1) 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 being from June 21 to September 20 in parts of the USA, and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.
 * 2) A person who sums.
 * 3)  A pack-horse.
 * 4) A horizontal beam supporting a building.

Verb

 * 1)  To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.

Adjectives for Summer
parting; bitter; relentless; broiling; costly; gorgeous; slow; humid; troubled; hot; promised; husky; trailing; northern; luxurious; strenuous; exciting; colorful; proud; economic; delicate; heavy; perished; perpetual; epitomized; immediate.

Verbs for Summer
await—; bask in—; bear the stamp of—; long for—; prolong—; suspend for—; thrive in—; usher in—; welcome—; yearn for—; —begets; —blooms; —breeds; —burgeons; —colors; —conceives; —dresses; —enriches; —fades; —gilds; —kisses; —mellows; —parches; —renews; —unfolds; —vitalizes; —wanes; —waxes; —wilts; —yields.

Thesaurus
spring, springlike, stuffy weather, sultry weather, summerlike, summerly, summertide, summertime, summery, sunshiny weather, take time, take up time, use time, vernal, vertical rays, warm weather, weekend, winter, winterlike, wintery, wintry, work against time, aestival, arctic, autumn, autumnal, boreal, broiling sun, brumal, buy time, canicular, canicular days, consume time, dog days, equinoctial, fair weather, good old summertime, growing season, heat wave, hibernal, hiemal, high summer, hot wave, hot weather, humid weather, keep time, kill time, look for time, measure time, midday sun, midsummer, midwinter, muggy weather, occupy time, out of season, pass time, put in time, race against time, seasonal, solstitial, spend time,

Pronunciation

 * (IPA) /ˈsʌmə(ɹ)/, (SAMPA) /"sVm@(r)/
 * (US) sŭmʹər, (IPA) /ˈsʌmɚ/, (SAMPA) /"sVm@`/

Etymology 1

 * sumor:, from (compare Dutch zomer:, German Sommer:, Old Norse sumar:), from  (compare  ham, haf 'summer',  ամ:, ամառ:,  undefined:  'in summer',  समा: 'half-year, year').

Etymology 2
From somer:, sumer:, from  saumarius:, for  sagmarius:, from sagma:.

Synonyms

 * summer-tree

Antonyms

 * winter

Derived terms 1

 * summer and winter
 * summer over


 * summering

Derived terms 2

 * aftersummer
 * All-Hallown Summer
 * dog days of summer
 * go-summer
 * Great Summer Army
 * have but a mile to midsummer
 * high summer
 * Hutchinson's summer prurigo, summer prurigo of Hutchinson
 * Indian summer
 * little summer of St Luke
 * Martinmas summer
 * midsummer
 * net summer capability
 * nuclear summer
 * old wives' summer
 * polar mesospheric summer echoes
 * Red Summer
 * Revolution Summer
 * Russian spring-summer encephalitis
 * Saint Luke's little summer, Saint Luke's summer, St Luke's little summer, St Luke's summer
 * Saint Martin's summer, St Martin's summer
 * snow-in-summer
 * summer-ale
 * summer and winter
 * summer annual
 * Summer Archbishop's Palace, Summer Archiepiscopal Palace
 * summer associate
 * summer asthma
 * summer-barm
 * summer bird
 * summer bleeding
 * summer-blink
 * summer boarder
 * summer break
 * summer-broach
 * summer camp
 * summer capital
 * summer catarrh
 * summercater
 * summer cholera
 * summer-cloud
 * Summer Coast
 * summer cock
 * summer cohosh
 * summer cold
 * summer colony
 * summer colt, summer-colt
 * summer complaint


 * Summercon
 * summer coot
 * summer cottage
 * summer country
 * summer crookneck
 * summer cypress
 * summer damask rose
 * summer-day
 * summer diarrhea, summer diarrhoea
 * summer-dream
 * summer duck
 * summer-eat
 * summer eggs
 * summer encephalitis
 * summer fallow, summer-fallow
 * summer-fallowing
 * Summerfest
 * summer fever
 * summer-field
 * summer finch
 * summer floor
 * summer flounder
 * summer-fold
 * summer fool
 * summer fruit tortrix moth
 * summerful
 * summer-game
 * Summer Games
 * Summer Garden
 * summer-gauze, summer-goose
 * summer grape
 * summer grass
 * summer hall
 * summer haw
 * summerhead
 * summer-heat
 * summer hemp
 * summer-herring
 * summer hit
 * summer holiday
 * summer holidays
 * summer house, summer-house, summerhouse
 * summer-hutch
 * summer hyacinth


 * summerish
 * summerise, summerize
 * Summer Isles
 * summer itch
 * summer kill
 * summer kitchen
 * summer lady
 * Summerland


 * summer-land, summerland
 * summerlay
 * summer lea-land
 * summer learning loss
 * summer-lease
 * summer-leding
 * summerless
 * summer lightning
 * summer-like, summerlike
 * summerling
 * summer-long, summerlong
 * summer-lord
 * summerly
 * summer master
 * summer mastitis
 * summer meal
 * summer migrant
 * summer monsoon
 * summer number
 * Summer of Hate
 * Summer of Love
 * Summer of Three Popes
 * Summer Olympic Games
 * summer-ova
 * Summer Palace
 * Summer Paralympics
 * summer parlour
 * summer pole
 * summer pruning
 * summer prurigo
 * summer pudding
 * summer queen, summer's queen
 * summer queening
 * summer range
 * summer rape
 * summer rash
 * summer reading program
 * summer red-bird, summer redbird
 * summer redcap
 * summer resort
 * summer-ripe
 * summer road
 * summer roll
 * summer-room
 * summer rose
 * summer rules
 * summer-run fish
 * summers
 * summer sale
 * summer sausage
 * summer savory
 * summer's bird
 * summer school


 * summer's cloud
 * summer's day
 * summer season
 * summer-seeming
 * summer services


 * summer sheldrake
 * summer slide
 * summer smog
 * summer snake
 * summer snipe
 * summer snowflake
 * summer-sob
 * summer solstice
 * summer sores
 * summer soup
 * summer spore
 * summer spot
 * summer squash, summer squash vine
 * summer's tide
 * summer's time
 * summer-stirring
 * summer stock
 * summer sweet, summer-sweet
 * summer tanager
 * summer teal
 * summer term
 * summer theater, summer theatre
 * summer-tide, summertide
 * summer-tilth
 * summer time
 * summer-time, summertime
 * summer top
 * summer tree
 * the Summer Triangle
 * summer tulip
 * summer vacation
 * summer village
 * summer visitor
 * summerward, summerwards
 * summer warbler
 * summer-weight
 * summer wheat
 * summer-whiting
 * summer wood, summerwood
 * summer-work
 * summer-worm
 * summery
 * summer-yellow
 * summer yellowbird
 * unsummered
 * winter and summer
 * the Year Without a Summer

Derived terms 3

 * breastsommer, breastsummer, bressomer, bressumer, bressummer, brestsummer
 * summer bar
 * summer-beam
 * summer-castle
 * summering
 * summer-piece
 * summer-stone
 * summer-tower
 * summer-tree, summertree
 * summer-trestle
 * transsummer

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: صيف
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian:
 * Aromanian:
 * Asturian: veranu, branu, verañu
 * Azeri:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali: গ্রীষ্ম
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: קיץ
 * Hindi: ग्रीष्म, गर्मी, गर्मी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: somero
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: estate
 * Inuktitut: ᐊᐅᔭ
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 夏
 * Korean: 여름
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: havîn
 * Sorani:
 * Kyrgyz: жай
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latin:


 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lower Sorbian: lěto
 * Luxembourgish: Summer
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam: വേനല്‍ക്കാലം (vEnalkkaalam)
 * Maltese: sajf
 * Maori: raumati
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English: sumor
 * Old French:
 * Persian:, هامین
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch:
 * Russian:
 * Sami:
 * Northern:
 * Scots: simmer
 * Scottish Gaelic: samhradh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: лето, љето
 * Roman: leto, ljeto
 * Slovak: leto
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kiangazi, majira ya joto, kipindi cha kiangazi
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: pȉléna
 * Telugu: వేసవి (vaesavi), ఎండాకాలం (eMDaakaalaM)
 * Thai: ฤดูร้อน, เดือนร้อน, ความเดือนร้อน, หน้าร้อน
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian: lěto
 * Urdu: گرمی, گریشم, گرما, صيف
 * Uyghur: ياز
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: mùa hè,
 * Volapük: hitüp
 * Warlpiri: wanta
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: simmer
 * Yiddish:

Verb

 * Croatian: ljetovati
 * Finnish: viettää kesää
 * Greek: παραθερίζω, ξεκαλοκαιριάζω
 * Hungarian: nyaral


 * Macedonian: летува
 * Russian: проводить лето
 * Serbian: letovati
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * Russian: балка, брус,  перекладина