summer

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

   “I'm going to the Gambia in the summer.”

   “At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.”

   “A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.”

2. (countable, humorous, poetic, uncountable)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.”

3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Most flourishing, happy, or beautiful period; golden age, prime.

   “O! craving heart, for the lost flowers And sunshine of my summer hours!”

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.
5. 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.”

6. (obsolete)A pack-horse.
7. A person who sums.
8. A machine or algorithm that sums.

   “A basic feedback system consists of ... and a summing point (comparator or summer).”

   “The output of the summer is therefore fed into the input of the first integrator.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.

   “For he was an oddity, a black multimillionaire who summered on the Riviera, had an apartment in Paris and a penthouse, in a building he owned, high above Sugar Hill.”

name

1. (countable)A female given name from English of modern usage, from summer, the name of the season, often given to girls born in summer.
2. (countable)A surname.
3. (alt-of, archaic, poetic)Alternative letter-case form of summer.

   “I am very prodigall of cappings, namely in Summer, and I never receive any from what quality of men ſoever, but I giue them as good and as many as they bring, except he be ſome ſervant of mine.”

   “Notwithstanding the tristness of the town, there are many visitors during the Summer who come for quiet and economy.”

   “Light limp caps of woollen, with brood visors, or broad-brimmed (but not too broad,) felt hats; double-breasted coats, so made that they can be worn open in warm weather, and will really protect the chest in a lower temperature; trowsers of the same, and under these, light flannel shirts and drawers; such are the proper materials for a soldier’s dress, even in the Summer months.”

   “In early Summer, several years ago, we were ornithologizing in a beautiful clump of natural wood along a steep brae face, so well sheltered from the north and east, and with so sunny and southern an aspect, that it had been known to us for years as the very paradise of all sorts of singing birds in the nesting season.”

   “As we approached Ialta, the Czar’s favorite Summer resort, which is nestled snugly in the well-wooded mountains, and has its long esplanade lined with shops, which hang out over the very blue bay, the little old Caucasan gentleman, by signs and looks of intelligence, in some way made us understand that he would like to take us ashore to see the sights.”