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St. Luke's summer

St. Luke's summer noun: a short period of warm weather around St Luke's Day (18 October); an Indian summer (also figuratively).

Noun

St. Luke's summer

  1. A short period of warm weather around St Luke's Day (18 October); an Indian summer (also figuratively).
    • to me there was something infinitely pathetic and appealing in the idea of the egg having a sort of St. Luke's summer of commercial usefulness.1904, ‘Saki’, “Reginald's Rubaiyat”, in Reginald
    • Almost every virtue of every season is contracted into the little span of St. Luke's summer, the very vintage of the year's juices.1934, Sir William Beech Thomas, The Yeoman's England
    Synonyms:
    Indian summer

Synonyms of St. Luke's summer

Forms of St. Luke's summer

alternative formlittle summer of St. Luke
alternative formSaint Luke's summer
alternative formSt. Luke's little summer

Questions about St. Luke's summer

What does St. Luke's summer mean?
St. Luke's summer means a short period of warm weather around St Luke's Day (18 October); an Indian summer (also figuratively).
What part of speech is St. Luke's summer?
St. Luke's summer is a noun.

Words near St. Luke's summer in the dictionary

  1. St. Louisan
  2. St. Louisans
  3. St. Lubbock's Day
  4. St. Lucia
  5. St. Lucie County
  6. St. Luke's summer
  7. St. Lunaire-Griquet
  8. St. Malo
  9. St. Margrethen
  10. St. Maries
  11. St. Mark's flies

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