Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The season of winter.
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- noun The
season ofwinter , betweenautumn andspring
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox
Etymologies
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Examples
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We would tell you that we hoped our country had [words indistinct] at this moment it is not summertime in Cuba, and even during what we call wintertime everyone sweats.
TOUR OF CHILE 1971
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The buck is too big, too fat and too clean to be a wild buck in wintertime snow-and-ice USA.
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Vikings traditionally wore heavy wool garments and furs in wintertime and linens in the warmer months, as they did not have cotton (nor spandex lol).
Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Behold: The New Thor 2010
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The buck is too big, too fat and too clean to be a wild buck in wintertime snow-and-ice USA.
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Yes, wintertime is not a particularly good time to get started on outdoor infrastructure projects that involve digging in the frozen earth.
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"I grew up in wintertime playing on ponds and lakes," Crosby said.
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This far north the sun sets early in wintertime — technically, around 3: 00 p.m. — but in truth, sunset heralds two hours of dusky purple and orange in the western sky, above a serrated landscape visible to a range of thirty miles.
Empire's End 2006
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This far north the sun sets early in wintertime — technically, around 3: 00 p.m. — but in truth, sunset heralds two hours of dusky purple and orange in the western sky, above a serrated landscape visible to a range of thirty miles.
Empire's End 2006
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This far north the sun sets early in wintertime — technically, around 3: 00 p.m. — but in truth, sunset heralds two hours of dusky purple and orange in the western sky, above a serrated landscape visible to a range of thirty miles.
Empire's End 2006
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This far north the sun sets early in wintertime — technically, around 3: 00 p.m. — but in truth, sunset heralds two hours of dusky purple and orange in the western sky, above a serrated landscape visible to a range of thirty miles.
Empire's End 2006
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