name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
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"autumn leaves"
"She has beauty still, and if it be not in its heyday, it is not yet in its autumn."
"True it is that, owing to the migratory propensities of our countrymen, every third man has wintered at Naples, springed at Vienna, summered in Switzerland, and autumned on the banks of the Lago Maggiore;"
"The glistening path where weeds had clung, / And tumbled bushes lay, / Was hidden now, but yet there rung / Tones of an autumned May.[…]And cheers rang out, the song and shout, / For the fray had found its eve, / And pirate chief like autumned leaf, / O’er fallen pride did grieve!”"
"Kyoto is most beautiful in autumn."
Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves, and temperatures and daylight hours decrease; typically regarded as spanning the months of September, October, and November in the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere.
Common synonyms include: fall, aestival, arctic, autumnal, boreal, brumal.
Kyoto is most beautiful in autumn.
Pronounced /ˈɔtəm/.
Inherited from Middle English autumpne, from Middle French automne, from Old French automne, autonne, from Latin autumnus. Some of the verbal senses are from Latin autumnāre.