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5 4.1
To spend the warm months in one place, often away from home
  • verb
  • /ˈsʌmər/
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  • - We will be summering in London!

Examples

  • After leaving Germany for Harvard, he never revisited that country, though he summered annually in Europe for three more years.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Cecil is the Brooklyn College professor who summers across the street.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • You know, where do you summer?

  • I summer here but I winter in Miami.

  • Where do you summer, South Hampton? -

  • In contrast with the families summering in the cottages, most of the working population was young and single.

    Academic text (1993)
  • And you summer in the Hamptons next to Martha Stewart.

  • We were summering in the Hamptons.

  • I've been summering in Saint Charles since I was a boy.

  • We are excited to summer at the lake house again this year.

Antonyms

1.0

To go away from a place, person, or group

176 1.3

To leave a place to start a journey

Compounds

57 1.3

A place where children stay away from home in summer to join activities

32 2.3

A course held during the summer for students who need extra classes or credit

12 3.2

A house in the country used for staying and relaxing during summer

5 1.0

A long break in summer when schools are closed

A day with the most daylight in the year, usually around June 21 in the north

A soft cool wind in summer that feels pleasant

3 6.8

Plays put on by a local theatre group in the summer at holiday places

A soft vegetable like zucchini eaten while its skin is still tender

A period of warm, dry weather that comes in autumn after a frost

A public event held each summer with music, food, and activities

A short trip in summer to relax, for example at the beach

A late period when someone or something becomes successful again after decline

Crops that are gathered in summer, such as fruits and vegetables

9.9

The end of summer when days get cooler and shorter

A short period of unusually warm weather in autumn, often in November

9.9

A tall flowering plant with white flower clusters that blooms in summer in eastern United States woods

A yellow squash with a thin curved neck and slightly bumpy skin used in cooking

A bush with many branches whose green leaves turn purple and red in autumn

9.9

A tree that makes small red sour fruit used to make jelly

summer hyacinth
  • South African
8.8

A plant from southern Africa with white bell-shaped flowers grown in gardens

A bird in the central and southern United States whose male is deep red and female is mostly yellow

A large pink rose with a very strong smell, grown for perfume

9.0

A colorful North American bird that nests in holes in trees

A flat fish from the east coast of North America that people eat

An herb with small leaves and a pleasant smell that you use to add flavor to food

8.4

A bush with fragrant white flowers that bloom in summer

A bird found in North America with males deep red and females mostly yellow

That blooms in summer

A European plant with narrow leaves and clusters of small white star-shaped flowers

A bushy plant that grows soft edible squash eaten young

Plants that bloom in summer

9.9

A person who is innocent and trusts people easily

A low garden plant with clusters of white flowers that is sometimes poisonous

Surface Forms

summer infinitive
summered past
summered past participle
summing present participle
summers third person singular

Etymology

Summer as a verb comes from the same old word sumar for the season, so to 'summer' somewhere simply means to spend that warm time there.