autumn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ôʹtəm
ipa: /ˈɔːtəm/
ipa: /ˈɔtəm/
ipa: [ˈɔɾɪ̈m]
ipa: [ˈɔɾm̩]
ipa: /ˈɑtəm/
ipa: [ˈɑɾɪ̈m]
ipa: [ˈɑɾm̩]
rhymes: -ɔːtəm
Forms: form: autumns
form: autum
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English autumpne, from Middle French automne, from Old French automne, autonne, from Latin autumnus. Some of the verbal senses are from Latin autumnāre.
Senses: examples: text: autumn leaves
text: The Spring, the Sommer, / The childing Autumne, angry Winter change / Their wonted Liueries, […]
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 149, column 1:
text: In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom / I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not've got 'em
ref: 2000, “Stan”, in The Marshall Mathers LP, performed by Eminem:
synonyms: fall
harvest
back end
glosses: Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves, and temperatures and daylight hours decrease; typically regarded as spanning the months of September, October, and November in the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere.
examples: text: She has beauty still, and if it be not in its heyday, it is not yet in its autumn.
ref: 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House:
text: It has been portrayed as the well-intended yet wrongly directed reaction to latter-day scholasticism, or as the harvest of medieval theology in its autumn years, as a revolution that is theological, political, economic, cultural—or all of the above.
ref: 2014, Robert Kolb, Irene Dingel, Lubomír Batka, The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's Theology, →ISBN:
text: Unlike the decline of British hegemony, in the current world-system no military or economic contender has emerged to replace US hegemony. Even though the US SCA has entered its autumn with the Vietname War and the economic crisis of the mid-1970s, there has been no legitimate hegemonic contender capable of instituting a new global regime to resolve both social and economic contradictions of global capitalism.
ref: 2014, Berch Berberoglu, The Global Capitalist Crisis and Its Aftermath, →ISBN:
text: The autumn of life is also a matter of saying farewell, but the strange thing is that I do not feel it is autumn.
ref: 2014, May Sarton, At Seventy: A Journal, →ISBN:
synonyms: decline
glosses: The time period when someone or something is past its prime.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.
Derived terms: word: autumn Adonis
word: autumn bells
word: autumn colors
word: autumn colours
taxonomic: Colchicum autumnale
word: autumn crocus
word: autumn equinox
word: autumn fern
word: Autumnfest
word: autumn fever
taxonomic: Musca autumnalis
word: autumn fly
word: autumn foliage
word: autumnful
word: Autumn Harvest Uprising
word: autumn ice
word: autumnise
word: autumnize
word: autumnish
word: autumn lady's tresses
word: autumn leaf
taxonomic: Sympetrum vicinum
word: autumn meadowhawk
taxonomic: Elaeagnus umbellata
word: autumn olive
word: autumn pumpkin
word: autumn romance
word: autumn rustic
taxonomic: Galerina marginata
word: autumn skullcap
taxonomic: Helenium autumnale
word: autumn sneezeweed
word: autumn snowflake
word: autumn-spring
word: autumn term
word: autumntide
word: autumntime
word: autumn-time
word: autumnwear
word: autumny
word: autumn years
word: German Autumn
word: Hot Autumn
word: mid-autumn
Related terms: Adonis autumnalis
autumnal
autumnal equinox
autumnian
autumnity
Colchichum autumnale
Coregonus autumnalis
Coregonus autumnalis migratorius
Dendrocygna autumnalis
Epirrita autumnata
Galerina autumnalis
Helenium autumnale
Lacus Autumni
Leontodon autumnale
Leontodon autumnalis
Leptospira autumnalis
Leptus autumnalis
Musca autumnalis
Neotrombicula autumnalis
Plegadis autumnalis
Scilla autumnalis
Trombicula autumnalis