Winter

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English

Noun

Winter (plural Winters)
  1. Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as being from December 21 to March 20 in continental regions of the Northern Hemisphere or the months of June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, resulting in short days, and the time of year with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region.

Adjectives for Winter

withered; rough; tedious; dreadful; belated; rude; terrible; dreary; oblivious; laggard; bitter; brown; collapsing; stern; grand; dumb; dogged; brilliant; fatal; weeping; immortalizing; veritable; polar; trembling; monstrous; cheerless; unearthly; oppressive.

Verbs for Winter

approach—; evade—; survive—; usher in —; —benumbs; —bites; —blankets; — blasts; —blights; —cloaks; —continues; — declines; —exterminates; —frosts; —glistens; —grips; —impoverishes; —nips; — persists; —presses; —relaxes; —roars; — wanes; —whips across.

Derived terms

Terms derived from winter

Related terms

Terms related to winter

Verb

Winter (third-person singular simple present Winters, present participle Wintering, simple past and past participle Wintered)

  1. (intransitive) To spend the winter (in a particular place).
    When they retired, they hoped to winter in Florida.
  2. (transitive) To store something (for instance animals) somewhere over winter to protect it from cold.

Thesaurus

aestival, arctic, autumn, autumnal, bitter weather, bleak weather, boreal, brumal, buy time, canicular, cold snap, cold wave, cold weather, consume time, depth of winter, equinoctial, freeze, freezing weather, frost, hard winter, hibernal, hiemal, keep time, kill time, look for time, measure time, midsummer, midwinter, occupy time, out of season, pass time, put in time, race against time, raw weather, seasonal, snap, solstitial, spend time, spring, springlike, subzero weather, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery, take time, take up time, use time, vernal, weekend, winterlike, wintertide, wintertime, wintery, wintry, wintry weather, wintry wind, work against time, zero weather

Etymology

Old English winter

Pronunciation

Translations

Noun

fourth season, marked by short days and lowest temperatures

Verb

spend the winter, as in a particular place on holiday
store over winter

Anagrams

Dutch

Noun

Winter m. (plural winters, diminutive wintertje, diminutive plural wintertjes)

  1. winter

Etymology

From Old Dutch *wintar, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz.

Pronunciation

See also

Old English

Noun

Winter m.

  1. winter (season)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wintruz, probably representing a nasalised variant of Proto-Indo-European *wed- ( > English water, wet). Cognate with Old Frisian winter, Old Saxon winter (Dutch winter), Old High German wintar (German Winter), Old Norse vetr (Swedish vinter) and Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌽𐍄𐍂𐌿𐍃; and, outside the Germanic languages, with Latin unda (“wave”) and Lithuanian vanduõ (“water”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈwinter/

Descendants

  • English: winter

Scots

Noun

Winter (plural Winters)
  1. winter

West Frisian

Noun

Winter c. (pl. winters)

  1. winter

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /vĩtər/
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