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summertime

summertime noun: the period or season of summer.

Noun

summertime (countable and uncountable, plural summertimes)

  1. The period or season of summer.
    Synonyms:
    summertide

summertime meaning in Tamil

summertime in Tamil

வேனிற்பருவம்

Examples of summertime in a sentence

  • The government took steps to head off summertime shortages of gasoline.
  • His insistence on wearing thick wool scarves, even in the summertime, derived from his uniquely Oregonian sense of fashion.
  • She likes to go barefoot in the summertime.

All 14 example sentences with summertime

Synonyms of summertime

Forms of summertime

pluralsummertimes
alternative formsummer-time

Origin of summertime

From Middle English somertime, equivalent to summer + time. Compare Dutch zomertijd (“summertime”), German Sommerzeit (“summertime”), Danish sommertiden (“summertime”), Swedish sommartid (“summertime”). Compare summertide.

Questions about summertime

What does summertime mean?
Summertime means the period or season of summer.
What is summertime in Tamil?
Summertime in Tamil is வேனிற்பருவம். See Summertime meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is summertime?
Summertime is a noun.
What is the plural of summertime?
The plural of summertime is summertimes.

Words near summertime in the dictionary

  1. summersweet
  2. summersweets
  3. summerteeth
  4. summertide
  5. summertides
  6. summertime
  7. summertimes
  8. Summertown
  9. summertree
  10. summertrees
  11. Summerville

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Adapted from Wiktionary: summertime (page history and authors); summertime (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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