autumn

[Au·tumn]

Autumn is the season after summer, when leaves fall from trees. It's also the season when the days get shorter and colder, and everything turns brown and drab, but people like it anyway, for the cocoa and cider, probably.

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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 season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973"


n.
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.

n.
The harvest or fruits of autumn.

n.
The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.


Autumn

Au"tumn , n. [L. auctumnus, autumnus, perh. fr. a root av to satisfy one's self: cf. F. automne. See Avarice.] 1. 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. &hand; In England, according to Johnson, autumn popularly comprises August, September, and October. In the southern hemisphere, the autumn corresponds to our spring. 2. The harvest or fruits of autumn. Milton. 3. The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.
Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor.
Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge.

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.

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Usage Examples

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

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