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autumn

autumn

140 1.0
The season between summer and winter when leaves fall and weather cools
  • noun
  • /ˈɔːtəm/
translation icon : otoño
  • One autumn afternoon in 1991, Karen saw the autumn sun grow dark by 2:00 in the afternoon.
  • summer and autumn
  • spring and autumn
  • early autumn

A roadside inn in autumn and anvil clanging.

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Examples

  • It feels like early autumn, and it is in some countries.

  • The leaves fall early this autumn in wind.

  • By the autumn of 2000, the road to peace no longer seemed so clear.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Yeah, so I love candles, especially as autumn fast approaches.

  • What could be more ordinary than autumn leaves blowing in the wind?

    Academic text (2011)
  • Reduce humidity in the house in the autumn by keeping doors shut when cooking, bathing, or showering.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The old, sad, spicy smell of autumn was beginning to overtake late summer's baked scents.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • And if a nightingale can sing on a chilly autumn morning, as passionately and as sweetly as it does on the night of May... then there is hope for me yet.

  • The leaves fall early this autumn in wind.

  • It's a beach, very long and flat, on an autumn afternoon in 1929.

Synonyms

fall
vsautumn
  • US
795 1.0

The season after summer when leaves change color and drop from trees

is the term used outside North America for the same season

Antonyms

1.0

The warmest season of the year between spring and autumn

854 1.0

The season between winter and summer when plants begin to grow

Compounds

A time when day and night are about the same length that marks the start of autumn

1 7.0

A time in life after retirement when people are older

1 8.1

A plant that grows from a bulb and makes white or purple flowers in autumn

The time when autumn begins

A short love relationship that begins in autumn and feels like a warm sad memory

A North American plant with bright yellow flowers that bloom in late summer

Flowering in autumn

A plant that flowers in autumn to give color late in the year

How Late

autumn
140 1.0
dormition of summer
  • Archaic
9.9
summertime
66 1.0
mid-June
1.0

Surface Forms

autumn singular
autumns plural

Etymology

Autumn comes from the Latin word autumnus, a name for the time 'after summer' when crops and leaves begin to 'dry' and fall. So autumn is the season when the weather cools and the trees lose their leaves.