summer

/ˈsʌmər/

/ˈsʌmə/

Other forms: summers; summering; summered

Summer is the season after spring and before autumn. In the summer, the weather is warmer and many students get a break from school.

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, summer lasts from June to September, and if you travel in December to Australia or somewhere else in the Southern Hemisphere, you'll get to experience summer all over again. When fancy people talk about what they do during the summer, they may use it as a verb: "Oh, we summer in Maine."

Definitions of summer

1. noun

   the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
   “they spent a lazy summer at the shore”

   synonyms: summertime

   type of:

   season, time of year

   one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions
2. noun

   the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty
   “the golden summer of his life”

   type of:

   time of life

   a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state
3. verb

   spend the summer
   “We summered in Kashmir”

   type of:

   pass, spend

   pass time in a specific way