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   summer

   /ˈsʌmə/

   noun

   • 1. the warmest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from June to August and in the southern hemisphere from December to February: "this plant flowers in late summer"
   • ▪ the period from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox.
   • ▪ years, especially of a person's age: "a girl of sixteen or seventeen summers"

   verb

   • 1. spend the summer in a particular place: "well over 100 birds summered there in 1976"
   • ▪ pasture (cattle) for the summer.

   Word Origin Old Englishsumor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zomer, German Sommer, also to Sanskrit samā ‘year’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. summerless adjective
   • 2. summerly adverb

   Scrabble Points: 10

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