summer
sum·mer [summer summers summered summering] BrE [ˈsʌmə(r)] NAmE [ˈsʌmər] noun uncountable, countable
the warmest season of the year, coming between spring and autumn/fall
• We're going away in the summer.
• It's very hot here in summer.
•in the summer of 2009
•late/early summer
•this/next/last summer
•a cool/hot/wet summer
•It is now high summer (= the hottest part of summer).
•a summer's day
•a summer dress
•the summer holidays/vacation
•two summers ago
see also ↑Indian summer, see one swallow doesn't make a summer at ↑swallow n.
Word Origin:
Old English sumor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zomer, German Sommer, also to Sanskrit samā ‘year’.
Example Bank:
•I returned home for summer vacation.
•I went home for the summer holidays.
•Seville is scorching in high summer.
•She seems to be enjoying an Indian summer of popularity.
•There are two new courses being run in the summer term.
•We had an Indian summer that year, very warm until October.
•the extra light brought by British Summer Time
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