wintertimen.
/ˈwɪntətʌɪm/, U.S. /ˈwɪn(t)ərˌtaɪm/ The season of winter; the time during which winter lasts.
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the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > winter
midwinterOE
wintertideOE
winterOE
wintertimea1398
hiemsc1450
snow-time1535
dead of winter1548
after-winter1593
back-winter1599
snow1778
ice queen1818
old-fashioned winter1829
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xvii. i. 885 Leues falleþ of trees in wynter tyme.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xiii. l. 189 With forste[s] With wyndes ne with wederes as in wynter-tyme [c1400 Trin. Cambr. tymes].
a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 158 (MED) Thus went he to Scotlond and abood þere til wyntir-tyme.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xv If ye lande be falowed in wynter tyme it is ferre the worse.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xi. f. 147 The Alcyon sitts In wintertime vppon her nest.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 631 All winter time almost it is continuallie cloudy and misty weather.
1716 J. Arbuthnot To Mayor & Aldermen City of London: Humble Petition 1 Warming of Cellars and Dressing of Suppers in the Winter-time.
1738 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds III. 71 These Birds..visit our Parts in the Winter-time, and leave us in the Spring; they frequent the Alder Trees, &c. By the River side.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 52 If it's winter time, they just give you fire enough to make you think you'd like more.
1897 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign xiii. 338 A pair of skates..which..came in useful when he got up to Kandahar in the winter-time.
1935 Boys' Life Dec. 19/1 They all wear furs in the winter time.
1963 Connecticut Hist. Soc. Apr. 43 As a member of Center Church, he used to have a foot stove carried to his pew while attending service in the wintertime.
2005 Skiing Feb. 69/1 Wintertime in Engelberg is greatly overshadowed by summertime, when tourists from the world over get 360-degree views from atop 10,624-foot Mount Titlis.
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1874 Punch 17 Jan. 22/1 ‘Buy my Oranges, buy!’ is a winter-time cry.
1964 Life 18 Dec. 103/1 Pork..was traditionally eaten in Europe at wintertime festivities.
2004 P. Roth Plot against Amer. (2005) iv. 139 The wintertime responsibility would fall to me for..once a day carrying a pailful of cold ashes out to the ashcan in the back-yard.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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