summer
/ˈsʌmɚ/ noun A1- 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· Gradually, the end of summer hove into sight.
- year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one. · He was barely eighteen summers old.· She had seen not more than twenty summers.
- Most flourishing, happy, or beautiful period; golden age, prime.
- Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
Plural summers
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One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch.
There was a ruined summer-house of white marble in the center of the terrace, built for queens dead a hundred years ago.
## I BED IN SUMMER
In summer, quite the other way,
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