Summer Noun Bre ˈsʌmə(R ˈsʌmər Hot Late/Early Year

• we're going away in the summer.
• it's very hot here in summer.
• in the summer of 2009
• late/early summer

summer

1. the warmest season of the year, coming between spring and autumn/fall
• see also Indian summer
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• We're going away in the summer.
• It's very hot here in summer.
• in the summer of 2009
• late/early summer
• this/next/last summer
• a cool/hot/wet summer
• It is now high summer (= the hottest part of summer).
• a summer’s day
• a summer dress
• the summer holidays/vacation
• two summers ago
2. you must not take too seriously a small sign that something is happening or will happen in the future, because the situation could change

Extra Examples

• I returned home for summer vacation.
• I went home for the summer holidays.
• Seville is scorching in high summer.
• She seems to be enjoying an Indian summer of popularity.
• There are two new courses being run in the summer term.
• We had an Indian summer that year, very warm until October.
• the extra light brought by British Summer Time

Word Origin

• Old English sumor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zomer, German Sommer, also to Sanskrit samā ‘year’.