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summer

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1. summer - Noun

2. summer - Verb

4. Summer - Proper noun

Meaning

One who sums; one who casts up an account.

A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree.

The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.

To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland.

To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. Anton Chekhov

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry James

The winter will ask what we did all summer. Gypsy Proverb

If summer had a mother, she would weep at summer's passing. Lebanese Proverb

The favor of a man in power is like a summer shower. Uruguayan Proverb

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