winter

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Old English winter

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winter (plural winters)

  1. Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as being from December 21 to March 20 in continental regions of the Northern Hemisphere or the months of June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, resulting in short days, and the time of year with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region.

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  • Note that season names are usually spelled in all lowercase letters in English. This is contrast to the days of the week and months of the year, which are always spelled with a capitalized first letter, for example Thursday or September.

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fourth season, marked by short days and lowest temperatures

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winter (third-person singular simple present winters, present participle wintering, simple past and past participle wintered)

  1. (intransitive) To spend the winter (in a particular place).
    When they retired, they hoped to winter in Florida.
  2. (transitive) To store something (for instance animals) somewhere over winter to protect it from cold.

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spend the winter, as in a particular place on holiday
store over winter

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From Middle Dutch winter, from Old Dutch *wintar, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz.

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winter m. (plural winters, diminutive wintertje)

  1. winter

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From Proto-Germanic *wintruz, probably representing a nasalised variant of Proto-Indo-European *wed- ( > English water, wet). Cognate with Old Frisian winter, Old Saxon winter (Dutch winter), Old High German wintar (German Winter), Old Norse vetr (Swedish vinter) and Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌽𐍄𐍂𐌿𐍃; and, outside the Germanic languages, with Latin unda (“wave”) and Lithuanian vanduõ (“water”).

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  • IPA: /ˈwinter/

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winter m.

  1. winter (season)

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  • English: winter

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winter (plural winters)

  1. winter

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  • IPA: /vĩtər/

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winter c. (pl. winters)

  1. winter
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