Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, intended for, or suggesting summer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to summer; like summer; summer-like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to summer; like summer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to the
summer . - adjective Of weather, typical of summer.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective belonging to or characteristic of or occurring in summer
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Examples
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The back flap summery is enough because anyone with basic knowledge of a tastless teenage romance could connect the dots of the story.
Twilight's First Official Photo and Why I'm Passing « FirstShowing.net 2008
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One more to go (and she wants something "summery" - in beach/southwest type colours - the colours I think I have a fairly good idea of, but no idea what I'll do for the block yet; probably not this star, though) and I can tick August off the list.
Archive 2007-07-01 katelnorth 2007
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One more to go (and she wants something "summery" - in beach/southwest type colours - the colours I think I have a fairly good idea of, but no idea what I'll do for the block yet; probably not this star, though) and I can tick August off the list.
That star again katelnorth 2007
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His summery was the police force was totally inadequate to meet the security challenges of modern India.
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"'Tain't exactly what you'd call summery just now," I says.
Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Airing on Sunday, Nov. 23, ` ` 24: Redemption '' was partly shot during a windy, chilly winter in South Africa (aka the summery and warm fictional nation of Sangala) and partly in sunny Los Angeles (aka Washington, D.C., in January).
Berks county news 2008
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It acquired a kind of summery power after what I'd seen: The missing acknowledgement of evil by the three monkeys, the frog the snow turned into a victim, the infantilizing principle of the giant Mom, the feline predator on trial, Moby Dick retold in bronze, eyes whiter and colder with traces of demonic righteousness overturned remember those interpreters than the sculptor intended.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: The Otterness Blizzard Allan M. Jalon 2011
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It acquired a kind of summery power after what I'd seen: The missing acknowledgement of evil by the three monkeys, the frog the snow turned into a victim, the infantilizing principle of the giant Mom, the feline predator on trial, Moby Dick retold in bronze, eyes whiter and colder with traces of demonic righteousness overturned remember those interpreters than the sculptor intended.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: The Otterness Blizzard Allan M. Jalon 2011
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It acquired a kind of summery power after what I'd seen: The missing acknowledgement of evil by the three monkeys, the frog the snow turned into a victim, the infantilizing principle of the giant Mom, the feline predator on trial, Moby Dick retold in bronze, eyes whiter and colder with traces of demonic righteousness overturned remember those interpreters than the sculptor intended.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: The Otterness Blizzard Allan M. Jalon 2011
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It acquired a kind of summery power after what I'd seen: The missing acknowledgement of evil by the three monkeys, the frog the snow turned into a victim, the infantilizing principle of the giant Mom, the feline predator on trial, Moby Dick retold in bronze, eyes whiter and colder with traces of demonic righteousness overturned remember those interpreters than the sculptor intended.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: The Otterness Blizzard Allan M. Jalon 2011
cathybullock commented on the word summery
Is "estival" a synonym for "summery"?
April 3, 2009