summers

Noun (1)

summer (countable and uncountable, plural summers)

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 spanning either the period between the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox, or the months of June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.
   • the heat of summer
2. (humorous, poetic) year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.
   • He was barely eighteen summers old.
3. (figuratively) Most flourishing, happy, or beautiful period; golden age, prime.
   • O! craving heart, for the lost flowers
     And sunshine of my summer hours!1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
4. (countable) Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.

Noun (2)

summer (plural summers)

1. A horizontal beam supporting a building.
   • And we are warned, that the foundation or maine summers of our houses faile and shrinke, when we see the quarters bend, or wals to breake.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 43, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 146

   Synonyms:

   summerbeam, summertree

2. (obsolete) A pack-horse.

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