Summertime

noun

noun ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The period or season of summer. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the warmest season of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox wordnet

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dog dayssummersummersummertidesummertide

Example

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"I like cold potato salad in the summertime."

Etymology

From Middle English somertime, equivalent to summer + time. Compare Dutch zomertijd (“summertime”), German Sommerzeit (“summertime”), Danish sommertiden (“summertime”), Swedish sommartid (“summertime”). Compare summertide.

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