summer

Meaning

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 and thermal lag. Typically regarded as being from June 21 to September 22 or 23 in parts of the USA, the months of June, July and August in the United Kingdom and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.
2. year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.
3. Most flourishing, happy, or beautiful period; golden age, prime.
4. Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.

Verb

To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.

Synonyms

hot season

summertime

hot weather

dry season

autumn

spring

time

⌚

heat

summery

season

pass

period

purlin

rains

spend

stage

summerly

sunshine

term

vacation

winter

⛷️

year

aestivate

bright days

cross-beam

late autumn

longeron

of summer

spend the summer

summertide

daylight savings time

summer season

palmy days

spend summer

warmest season

summation meter

summer-like

side member

adder-subtractor

adding box

summer tree

summer beam girder

sommer beam

side timber purline

adder

every summer

adding machine

daylight saving time

epoch

era

girder

holiday

hot

🥵

lintel

namely

Hyphenated as

sum‧mer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsʌmə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Cognate with Scots: somer

Cognate with Western Frisian: simmer

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Suumer

Cognate with Dutch: zomer

Cognate with Low German: Sommer

Cognate with German: Sommer

Cognate with Danish: -

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: sommer

Cognate with Swedish: sommar

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: -

Cognate with Icelandic: sumar

Cognate with Welsh: haf

Cognate with Armenian: ամ

Cognate with Sanskrit: समा

Cognate with Avestan: 𐬵𐬀𐬨

Cognate with Pahlavi: ḥʾmyn

Cognate with Northern Kurdish: havîn

Cognate with Central Kurdish: ھاوین

Inherited from Middle English: somer

In summary

From Middle English somer, sumer, from Old English sumor (“summer”), from Proto-West Germanic *sumar, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz (“summer”), from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-h₂-ó-, oblique of *semh₂- (“summer, year”).
Cognate with Scots somer, sumer, simer (“summer”), West Frisian simmer (“summer”), Saterland Frisian Suumer (“summer”), Dutch zomer (“summer”), Low German Sommer (“summer”), German Sommer (“summer”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sommer (“summer”), Swedish sommar (“summer”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic sumar (“summer”), Welsh haf (“summer”), Armenian ամ (am, “year”), ամառ (amaṙ, “summer”), Sanskrit समा (sámā, “a half-year, season, weather, year”),
Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬨 (ham-, “summer”), Middle Persian ḥʾmyn (hāmīn, “summer”), Northern Kurdish havîn (“summer”), Central Kurdish ھاوین (hawîn, “summer”).