summer
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈsʌmər/
- Literature
- She described her teenage years as the summer of her life, where everything felt possible.
- summer of love
Examples
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If you love me right, This could be the summer of our lives, our heart.
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Long ago, when she was only six summers, she saw Bear Paw in a dream.
Fiction book (1992) -
How are you gonna find that summer love?
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It's the summer of love, baby.
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Each day was like the best days of summer he remembered as a child.
Fiction book (1994) -
This is the the peak of the summer in Iraq.
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Social historians refer to the summer of 1967 as "the summer of love."
Academic text (1995) -
It was a summer of change, a summer of big developments, and a summer of making new friends.
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In those cottages, those summers, his family seemed different, loosed from the habits of town.
Fiction book (1991) -
T3 also offers international conferences every spring, online courses, and summer institutes in more than 20 countries.
Academic text (2001)
Antonyms
Compounds
1
6.4
An herb with small leaves and a pleasant smell that you use to add flavor to food
1
6.9
A yellow squash with a thin curved neck and slightly bumpy skin used in cooking
1
9.9
A short period of unusually warm weather in autumn, often in November
1
8.1
A European plant with narrow leaves and clusters of small white star-shaped flowers
- South African
1
8.8
A plant from southern Africa with white bell-shaped flowers grown in gardens
A tall flowering plant with white flower clusters that blooms in summer in eastern United States woods
A bird in the central and southern United States whose male is deep red and female is mostly yellow
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the meaning of summer as a time of peak happiness is to think of the warm season as full of growth and light; that's why calling a time the 'summer' of your life means it was your happiest, most successful time.