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Definition of Summer

Summer

  1. One who sums; one who casts up an account.
  2. 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.
  3. The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
  4. To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland.
  5. To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.

Summer Quotations

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Erma Bombeck

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Jim Rohn
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Summer Translations

summer in Afrikaans is somer
summer in Danish is sommer
summer in Dutch is zomer
summer in German is Sommer
summer in Italian is estate, estivo
summer in Latin is aestas estas
summer in Norwegian is sommer
summer in Spanish is verano, estkval
summer in Swedish is sommar

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