单词 | summer |
释义 | summer1/ˈsʌmə /noun 1The warmest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from June to August and in the southern hemisphere from December to February: this plant flowers in late summer a long hot summer [as modifier]: summer holidays figurative the golden summer of her life...
1.1 Astronomy The period from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox.The five days that weren't included were in the middle of the summer when Sirius, the dog star, can be seen near the rising sun....
1.2 (summers) literary Years, especially of a person’s age: a girl of sixteen or seventeen summers...
verb [no object, with adverbial of place] 1Spend the summer in a particular place: well over 100 birds summered there in 1976...
1.1 [with object] Pasture (cattle) for the summer.They summered the cattle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of eastern California and then moved them each fall to winter pasture in the lower elevations of western Nevada where the home ranch is located....
DerivativessummerlessOriginOld English sumor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zomer, German Sommer, also to Sanskrit samā 'year'. Rhymessummer2/ˈsʌmə /(also summer tree) noun A horizontal bearing beam, especially one supporting joists or rafters.Overhead, in the center, was the summer-tree, a timber 20x14 inches, into which the joist was framed, planed (and so was the under side of the chamber floor), with no lath or plaster. OriginMiddle English: from Old French somier 'packhorse', from late Latin sagmarius, from Greek sagma 'packsaddle'. |
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