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Pronunciation
a|UK: IPA|/�s�m�/, SAMPA|/"sVm@/
a|US: enPR|/sŭmʹ�r, IPA|/�s�m�/, SAMPA|/"sVm@`/
audio|en-us-summer.ogg|Audio (US)
rhymes|�m�(r)

Etymology 1
OE. sumor

Noun
en-noun

1. One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth. Typically regarded as being from June 21 to September 20 in the Northern Hemisphere and from December 21 to March 20 in the Southern Hemisphere.

#: the heat of summer

Antonyms
winter

Derived terms
rel-top4|Terms derived from the noun summer
aftersummer
All-Hallown Summer
dog days of summer
go-summer
w:Great Summer Army|Great Summer Army
have but a mile to midsummer
high summer
Hutchinson's summer prurigo, summer prurigo of Hutchinson
Indian summer
little summer of St Luke
Martinmas summer
midsummer
net summer capability
nuclear summer
old wives' summer
polar mesospheric summer echoes
w:Red Summer|Red Summer
w:Revolution Summer|Revolution Summer
Russian spring-summer encephalitis
Saint Luke's little summer, Saint Luke's summer, St Luke's little summer, St Luke's summer
Saint Martin's summer, St Martin's summer
snow-in-summer
summer-ale
summer and winter
summer annual
w:Summer Archbishop's Palace|Summer Archbishop's Palace, Summer Archiepiscopal Palace
summer associate
summer asthma
summer-barm
summer bird
summer bleeding
summer-blink
summer boarder
summer break
summer-broach
summer camp
summer capital
summer catarrh
summercater
summer cholera
summer-cloud
w:Summer Coast|Summer Coast
summer cock
summer cohosh
summer cold
summer colony
summer colt, summer-colt
summer complaint
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w:Summercon|Summercon
summer coot
summer cottage
summer country
summer crookneck
summer cypress
summer damask rose
summer-day
summer diarrhea, summer diarrhoea
summer-dream
summer duck
summer-eat
summer eggs
summer encephalitis
summer fallow, summer-fallow<!--noun-->
summer-fallowing
w:Summerfest|Summerfest
summer fever
summer-field
summer finch
summer floor
summer flounder
summer-fold
summer fool
summer fruit tortrix moth
summerful
summer-game
Summer Games
w:Summer Garden|Summer Garden
summer-gauze, summer-goose
summer grape
summer grass
summer hall
summer haw
summerhead
summer-heat
summer hemp
summer-herring
summer hit
summer holiday<!--period of travel in the summer-->
summer holidays<!--period of time off school during the summer-->
summer house, summer-house, summerhouse
summer-hutch
summer hyacinth
<!--"summeriness" is derived from "summery"-->
summerish
summerise, summerize
w:Summer Isles|Summer Isles
summer itch
summer kill
summer kitchen
summer lady
Summerland
rel-mid4
summer-land, summerland
summerlay
summer lea-land
summer learning loss
summer-lease
summer-leding
summerless
summer lightning
summer-like, summerlike
<!--"summerliness" is derived from "summerly"-->
summerling
summer-long, summerlong
summer-lord
summerly
summer master
summer mastitis
summer meal
summer migrant
summer monsoon
summer number
Summer of Hate
Summer of Love
w:Summer of Three Popes|Summer of Three Popes
w:Summer of worms|Summer of Worms
Summer Olympic Games
summer-ova
w:Summer Palace (disambiguation)|Summer Palace
w:Summer Paralympics|Summer Paralympics
summer parlour
summer pole
summer pruning
summer prurigo
summer pudding
summer queen, summer's queen
summer queening
summer range
summer rape
summer rash
summer reading program
summer red-bird, summer redbird
summer redcap
summer resort
summer-ripe
summer road
summer roll
summer-room
summer rose
summer rules
summer-run fish
summers<!--adverb-->
summer sale
<!--"summersau(l)t" is unrelated to "summer"-->
summer sausage
summer savory
summer's bird
summer school
rel-mid4
summer's cloud
summer's day
summer season
summer-seeming
summer services
<!--"summerset" is unrelated to "summer"-->
summer sheldrake
summer slide
summer smog
summer snake
summer snipe
summer snowflake
summer-sob
summer solstice
summer sores
summer spore
summer spot
summer squash, summer squash vine
summer's tide
summer's time
summer-stirring
summer stock
summer sweet, summer-sweet
summer tanager
summer teal
summer term
summer theater, summer theatre
summer-tide, summertide
summer-tilth
summer time<!--system of measuring time in the summer-->
summer-time, summertime<!--the summer-->
summer top
summer tree<!--see also "summer-tree"-->
the Summer Triangle
summer tulip
summer vacation
summer village
summer visitor
summerward, summerwards
summer warbler
summer-weight
summer wheat
summer-whiting
summer wood, summerwood
summer-work
summer-worm
summery
summer-yellow
summer yellowbird
unsummered
winter and summer<!--adverb-->
the w:Year Without a Summer|Year Without a Summer
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trans-mid
Latin: aestas
Latvian: vasara f
Lithuanian: vasara f
Lower Sorbian: l�to n
trreq|Macedonian
Malayalam: വ�നല�����ാല� (vEnalkkaalam)
Maltese: sajf
Maori: raumati
Norwegian: sommer
Nynorsk: sommar
Occitan: estiu
Persian: fa-Arab|تابستا� (t�best�n)
Polish: lato n
Portuguese: verão m
Romanian: var� f
Russian: ле�о (léto) n
Scottish Gaelic: samhradh m
Serbian: �е�о (ljeto) n
Slovak: lеtо n
Slovene: poletje n
Spanish: verano m
Swedish: sommar
Telugu: వ�సవి (vaesavi), ��డా�ాల� (eMDaakaalaM)
Turkish: yaz
Ukrainian: лi�о (lito) n
Upper Sorbian: l�to n
Uzbek: yoz
Warlpiri: wanta
Welsh: haf
Yiddish: ���ער (zúmer) m
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Verb
en-verb

#intransitive To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.
#:We like to summer in the Mediterranean.

Derived terms
summer and winter<!--sic; verb: "to summer and winter"-->
summered<!--adjective-->
summering<!--adjective-->
summering<!--noun-->
summer over

Translations
trans-top|spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday
Finnish: viettää kesä|kesää
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See also
æstival, aestival, estival

Etymology 2
etystub

Noun
en-noun

#A horizontal beam supporting a building.

Synonyms
italbrac|horizontal beam: summer-tree

Derived terms
breastsommer, breastsummer, bressomer, bressumer, bressummer, brestsummer
summer bar
summer-beam
summer-castle
summering
summer-piece
summer-stone
summer-tower
summer-tree, summertree<!--see also "summer tree"-->
summer-trestle
transsummer

Etymology 3
sum + -er

Noun
en-noun

#A person who sums.

Derived terms
summer-up

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