autumn
Syllables: au·tumn/ˈɔːtəm//ˈɔtəm/
autumn noun: 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.
Noun
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
- The Spring, the Sommer, / The childing Autumne, angry Winter change / Their wonted Liueries, […]c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...
- 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
- It has been portrayed as the well-intended yet wrongly directed reaction to latter-day scholasticism, or as the harvest of medieval theology in its autumn years, as a revolution that is theological, political, economic, cultural—or all of the above.2014, Robert Kolb, Irene Dingel, Lubomír Batka, The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's Theology, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- decline
- A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.
Verb
autumn (third-person singular simple present autumns, present participle autumning, simple past and past participle autumned)
- To spend the autumn (in a particular place).
- True it is that, owing to the migratory propensities of our countrymen, every third man has wintered at Naples, springed at Vienna, summered in Switzerland, and autumned on the banks of the Lago Maggiore;1835 May, “Northern Germany. A Sketch.”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XI, number LXV, page 507
- If Tad’s father and Tad had wintered, springed, summered, and autumned together for an hundred years instead of fifteen they could[…]1912, William C[yrus] Sprague, Tad, the Story of a Boy who Had No Chance, page 2
- To (cause to) undergo the changes associated with autumn, such as leaves changing color and falling from trees.
- The glistening path where weeds had clung, / And tumbled bushes lay, / Was hidden now, but yet there rung / Tones of an autumned May.[…]And cheers rang out, the song and shout, / For the fray had found its eve, / And pirate chief like autumned leaf, / O’er fallen pride did grieve!”1886, Horace Eaton Walker, The Lady of Dardale and Other Poems, Manchester, N.H.: Browne & Rowe, pages 139 and 201
- […]he himself roamed with innocent Kate through the fast autumning woods[…]1887, Virginia Sandars, “The Duke of Melton”, in London Society, volume LII, London: F. V. White & Co., page 185
Proper noun capitalized: Autumn
Autumn (plural Autumns)
- A female given name from English of modern usage, from autumn, the name of the season.
autumn meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
autumn in Hindi
- season
- शरद् śarad, पतझड़ patjhaṛ, ख़िज़ाँ xizā̃, पाईज़ pāīz
autumn in Tamil
- season
- இலையுதிர்காலம் ilaiyutirkālam
autumn in Marathi
- season
- शरद śarad
autumn in Urdu
- season
- خَزاں xazā̃, خِزاں xizā̃, پائِیز pāīz, سَرَد sarad, پَت جَھڑ pat jhaṛ, خَرِیف xarīf
More languagesFewer languages
- autumn in Bengali
- শরৎ śorot, হেমন্ত hemonto
- autumn in Telugu
- శరత్కాలం śaratkālaṁ, ఆకురాలుకాలం ākurālukālaṁ
- autumn in Malayalam
- ശരത്കാലം śaratkālaṁ
- autumn in Kannada
- ಶರತ್ಕಾಲ śaratkāla
- autumn in Punjabi
- ਪਤਝੜ patjhaṛ, ਖਿਜਾਂ khijā̃, پت جھڑ pat jhaṛ
- autumn in Gujarati
- પાનખર pānkhar
- autumn in Odia
- ଶରତ୍ śarat
- autumn in Sanskrit
- शरद śarada
- autumn in Sinhala
- සරත් ඍතුව sarat r̥tuwa
- autumn in Assamese
- শৰৎকাল xorotkal, শৰৎ xorot
- autumn in Nepali
- शरद śarad
- autumn in Pashto
- منى mᶕnay, خمسور xamsor, خزان xazān, پاڼ رېژ paṇrež
- autumn in Tagalog
- taglagas
- autumn in Arabic
- خَرِيف ḵarīf, خريف ḵarīf
- autumn in Malay
- musim gugur, musim luruh
- autumn in Indonesian
- musim gugur
- autumn in Persian
- پائیز pâ'iz, خَزان xazân, خَریف xarif, پاییز pâyiz
- autumn in Thai
- ใบไม้ร่วง bai-máai-rûuang, ฤดูใบไม้ร่วง rʉ́-duu-bai-máai-rûuang, หน้าใบไม้ร่วง nâa-bai-máai-rûuang
- autumn in Vietnamese
- mùa thu, thu
- autumn in Myanmar
- ဆောင်းဦး hcaung:u:
- Sindhi
- سرء sr, خزان xzā̃, خريف xref
- Kashmiri
- ہَرُد harud
Examples of autumn in a sentence
- In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom / I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not've got 'em2000, “Stan”, in The Marshall Mathers LP, performed by Eminem:
- The autumn of life is also a matter of saying farewell, but the strange thing is that I do not feel it is autumn.2014, May Sarton, At Seventy: A Journal, →ISBN:
Synonyms of autumn
Antonyms
Forms of autumn
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | autumns |
| alternative form (obsolete) | autum |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | autumns |
| present participle | autumning |
| past participle | autumned |
| past | autumned |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Autumns |
Origin of autumn
Inherited from Middle English autumpne, from Middle French automne, from Old French automne, autonne, from Latin autumnus. Some of the verbal senses are from Latin autumnāre.
Words formed from autumn
- autumn Adonis
- autumn bells
- autumn break
- autumn colors
- autumn colours
- autumn crocus
- autumn equinox
- autumn fern
- Autumnfest
- autumn fever
- autumn fly
- autumn foliage
- autumnful
- Autumn Glory
- Autumn Harvest Uprising
- autumn ice
- autumnise
- autumnize
- autumnish
- autumn lady's tresses
- autumn leaf
- autumn meadowhawk
- autumn olive
- autumn pumpkin
- autumn romance
- autumn rustic
- autumn sage
- autumn skullcap
- autumn sneezeweed
- autumn snowflake
- autumn-spring
- autumn term
- autumntide
- autumntime
- autumn-time
- autumnwear
- autumn willow
- autumny
- autumn years
- German Autumn
- Hot Autumn
- mid-autumn
Phrases with autumn
Questions about autumn
- What does autumn mean?
- Autumn means 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.
- What is autumn in Hindi?
- Autumn in Hindi is शरद् (śarad), पतझड़ (patjhaṛ), ख़िज़ाँ (xizā̃). See Autumn meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use autumn in a sentence?
- In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men.
- What part of speech is autumn?
- Autumn can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce autumn?
- Autumn is pronounced /ˈɔːtəm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of autumn?
- The plural of autumn is autumns.
Words near autumn in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: autumn (page history and authors); Autumn (page history and authors); ଶରତ୍ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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