noun
summer
SUH-muh
noun
1
The warmest season of the year, between spring and autumn.
"We spent last summer travelling around Portugal."
"The garden is full of flowers by early summer."
2
A period seen as someone's prime or most flourishing time.
"The band enjoyed a brief summer of fame in the early nineties."
verb
1
To spend the summer season somewhere.
"The family summers on the coast every year."
How to Use Summer
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe hot season, or a metaphor for someone's best years.
Common pairings
summer holiday
in the summer
summer heat
Word Forms
summered past tense, summers plural, summers plural, summers plural, summers singular
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Etymology
From Old English sumor, going back through Proto-Germanic to a very old Indo-European root for "summer" — related to similar-sounding words across most Germanic languages.