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autumn

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1. autumn - Noun

2. autumn - Adjective

3. autumn - Verb

4. Autumn - Proper noun

Meaning

The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.

The harvest or fruits of autumn.

The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. Robert Frost

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. E. E. Cummings

He ate one fig and he thought the autumn had come. Tunisian Proverb

Autumn days come quickly like the running of a hound on the moor. Irish Proverb

There are seven different kind of weather in one autumn night. Icelandic Proverb

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