The third of the four seasons of the year, the autumn. Obsolete exc. dialect, or passing into sense 2.

= harvest time, n.

The time of harvest; the season of autumn (obsolete).

The season between summer and winter (traditionally regarded as beginning with the annual harvest, and now generally regarded as lasting from…

(the shedding of leaves in) autumn; = (the) fall of the leaf at fall, n.2 phrases 4.

The season between summer and winter; autumn.

(a) the fall of leaves; the season of autumn (cf. fall, n.2 40a);(b) fallen leaves.

The period of the year between harvest and the beginning of winter; late autumn. Also: the weather within this period. Cf. go-summer, n.

The later part or ‘latter end’ of a season; (absolutely) of the year: The late autumn, the ‘fall’.

= autumn time n. at autumn, n. compounds 5.