Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The season of the year between summer and winter, during which the weather becomes cooler and many plants become dormant, extending in the Northern Hemisphere from the autumnal equinox to the winter solstice and popularly considered to include the months of September, October, and November; fall. In the Southern Hemisphere autumn includes March, April, and May.
- noun A period of maturity verging on decline.
- adjective Relating to or occurring in autumn.
- adjective Grown during the season of autumn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter: often called
fall , as being the time of the falling of the leaves. - noun Figuratively
- noun A period of maturity, or of incipient decay, abatement, or decline: as, the autumn of life.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called “the
fall .” Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November. - noun The harvest or fruits of autumn.
- noun The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Traditionally the third of the four
seasons , whendeciduous trees lose their leaves; typically regarded as being fromSeptember 24 toDecember 22 in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and the months ofMarch ,April andMay in the Southern Hemisphere. - adjective Of or relating to autumn.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the season when the leaves fall from the trees
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This last view of baseball in autumn is nothing new.
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The leaf the idle wind shakes down in autumn from the tree,
Fires of Driftwood 1922
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"If these Bayern are the real deal, the word autumn champions might just take on a whole new meaning," predicted Abendzeitung eerily.
The Guardian World News Raphael Honigstein 2011
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The dying of the light in the autumn is a particularly bad spot, often.
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But the real haute couture story of this autumn is a young British designer who is about to transform the highly traditional world of Italian shoes.
Nicholas Kirkwood, British shoe designer, steps up to top role at Pollini Tom Kington 2010
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In stating that "the fashionable flag under which to fly this autumn is the F-word", Glover is correct that fairness will remain a central political battleground.
It's equality of life chances, not literal equality, that the left espouses Sunder Katwala 2010
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The chicadees are gathering about the houses again; these birds are resident with us through the year, but we seldom see them in summer; until the month of June they are often met fluttering about the groves near at hand, but from that time until the autumn is advancing, perhaps you will not see one.
Rural Hours 1887
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He thus strangely forgets that what we call autumn is springtime in the southern hemisphere (_Astronomy of the Ancients_, p. 511).
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871
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North America I'm from the UK, and North Americans share three names for their seasons with us (Winter, spring and summer), but what we call autumn is called the Fall, what are the origins of this?
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And I've decided that 'autumn' is a much more pleasant and pretty sounding and looking word than 'fall' is.
bulgarian goodie bulgariangoodie 2005
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