Winter
['wɪntə] or ['wɪntɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox.
(verb.) spend the winter; 'We wintered on the Riviera'; 'Shackleton's men overwintered on Elephant Island'.
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Definition
(n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.
(n.) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
(v. i.) To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florida.
(v. i.) To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.
Typist: Veronica
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Hibernate.
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Definition
n. an appliance for fixing on the front of a grate to keep warm a tea-kettle or the like.
n. the cold season of the year: a year: any season of cheerlessness: the last corn of the harvest a harvest festival.—adj. wintry.—v.i. to pass the winter.—v.t. to feed or to detain during winter.—ns. Win′ter-app′le an apple that keeps well in winter or that does not ripen till winter; Win′ter-bar′ley a kind of barley which is sown in autumn.—adj. Win′ter-beat′en (Spens.) beaten or injured by the cold of winter.—ns. Win′ter-berr′y a name given to several shrubs of the genus Ilex growing in the eastern parts of North America; Win′ter-bloom the witch-hazel; Win′ter-bourne an intermittent spring in the chalk-districts; Win′ter-cherr′y one of the Solanace a plant with edible red berries—also called in the United States Strawberry-tomatoes: the Balloon-vine having large triangular inflated fruit.—adj. Win′ter-clad warmly clad.—ns. Win′ter-clov′er the partridge-berry; Win′ter-cress a cruciferous plant cultivated for winter salad; Win′ter-crop a crop that will endure the winter or that yields fodder in winter-time.—adj. Win′tered having seen many winters: exposed to winter: (Shak.) worn in winter.—ns. Win′ter-fall′ow a fallow made in the winter; Win′ter-gar′den an ornamental garden for winter; Win′ter-green a plant of genus Pyrola also of Chimaphila: a plant of genus Gualtheria whose oil is an aromatic stimulant used chiefly in flavouring confectionery and syrups.—v.t. Win′ter-ground (Shak.) to protect as a plant from the inclemency of winter.—ns. Win′ter-lodge -lodg′ment the hibernacle of a plant.—adj. Win′terly cheerless.—n.pl. Win′ter-quar′ters the quarters of an army during winter: a winter residence.—ns. Win′ter-sett′le an old word for a winter dwelling; Win′ter-tide winter: Win′ter-wheat wheat sown in autumn; Win′triness.—adjs. Win′try Win′tery resembling or suitable to winter: stormy.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of winter, is a prognostication of ill-health and dreary prospects for the favorable progress of fortune. After this dream your efforts will not yield satisfactory results.
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Examples
- This was a glorious winter. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But nothing that could be done would prevent the rubber from getting soft in summer and hard and brittle in the winter. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- For myself, I was kept somewhat busy during the winter of 1847-8. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- These fine sunny days began to make me ashamed of my winter merino, so I have furbished up a lighter garment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Although we were anxious to leave England before the depth of winter, yet we were detained. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- We have all heard of certain animals sleeping through the long winter months and most of us have probably wondered what happens to them when they do this. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The winter remained mild for an unusually long time--he could have escaped; but instead he remained in Moscow, making impossible plans, at a loss. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- From the age of five or six until seventeen, I attended the subscription schools of the village, except during the winters of 1836-7 and 1838-9. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Perhaps he would have wintered in Moscow, but the Russians smoked him out; they set fire to and burnt most of the city. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She had wintered at Davos Platz, and was journeying now to join her friends at Lucerne, when a sudden hemorrhage had overtaken her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Typist: Terrence