autum

autum is the obsolete spelling of autumn.

autum is the alternative spelling of autem.

Meaning of autumn

autumn (countable and uncountable, plural autumns)

Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves, and temperatures and daylight hours decrease; typically regarded as spanning the months of September, October, and November in the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere.
- autumn leaves
Synonyms:

fall, harvest, back end
(broadly) The time period when someone or something is past its prime.
- She has beauty still, and if it be not in its heyday, it is not yet in its autumn.1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Synonyms:

decline
A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.

autem (plural autems)

(UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A church.
- THESE Autem Mortes be maried wemen, as there be but a fewe: For Autem in their language is a Church, so shee is a wyfe maried at the church, and they be as chaste as a cowe: I haue yt gooeth to bull euery moone, with what bull she careth not.1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursetors, page 49; republished 1814

plural	autums

What is autum the obsolete spelling of?: Autum is the obsolete spelling of autumn.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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