winter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪntə/
enpr: wĭnʹtər
ipa: /ˈwɪntɚ/
ipa: [ˈwɪɾ̃ɚ]
ipa: [ˈwɪntʰɚ]
ipa: [ˈwɪnɚ]
homophone: winner stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: winters
form: Winter
Etymology: From Middle English winter, from Old English winter, from Proto-West Germanic *wintru, from Proto-Germanic *wintruz (“winter”). Cognate with West Frisian winter (“winter”), Dutch winter (“winter”), German Winter (“winter”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian vinter (“winter”), Icelandic vetur (“winter”).
Senses: examples: text: Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
ref: a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:
text: And after summer evermore succeeds
 Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold.
ref: 1592, Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1:
text: It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 133:
text: There shall he learn, ere sixteen winters old,
That …
ref: 1785, William Cowper, “Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools." in The Poems of William Cowper, Vol. II., The Press of C. Whittingham (1822), page 174
text: […] a woman, tall, and strong of aspect, of some thirty winters by seeming, [...]
ref: 1897, William Morris, The Water of the Wondrous Isles, volume I, Longmans, Green and Co., published 1914, page 2:
glosses: Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as spanning the months of December, January, and February in temperate and polar regions of the Northern Hemisphere or the months of June, July, and August in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, resulting in short days, and the time of year with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region.
examples: text: Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge.
ref: 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion:
text: Buterin seemed to sense that the market was out of balance, and he made a smart decision that helped Ethereum weather the crypto winter and continue to build while the market was down.
ref: 2023, Ben Armstrong, Catching Up to Crypto, page 78:
glosses: The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Someone with dark skin, eyes and hair, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
glosses: An appliance to be fixed on the front of a grate, to keep a kettle warm, etc.
examples: text: Note that the Citie of Goa is the principall place of all the Oriental India, and the winter thus beginneth the 15 of May, with very great raine.
ref: 1584, Barret, in Hakl. ii. 413
text: The Winter heere beginneth about the first of Iune and dureth till the twentieth of September, but not with continuall raines as at Goa, but for some sixe or seuen dayes every change and full, with much wind, thunder and raine.
ref: 1610, Finch, in Purchas, i. 423
text: In Winter (when they rarely stir) they have a Mumjama, or Wax Cloth to throw over it […]
ref: 1678, Fryer, 410
text: The mere breadth of these mountains divides summer from winter, that is to say, the season of fine weather from the rainy […] all that is meant by winter in India is the time of the year when the clouds […] are driven violently by the winds against the mountains, […]
ref: 1770,—Raynal, tr. 1777, i. 34
glosses: The rainy season.
Hyponyms: AI winter
atomic winter
blackberry winter
blackthorn winter
dogwood winter
General Winter
impact winter
Kondratiev winter
Long Winter
meteorological winter
nuclear winter
Russian winter
Soviet winter
volcanic winter
Derived terms: Arab Winter
Arctic Winter Games
Austrian winter pea
beady-legged winter horse tick
bewinter
buy straw hats in winter
Canella winterana
Chinese winter squash
dead of winter
Drimys winteri
early-winter
early winter cress
East Indian winter jet
Father Winter
Fell Winter
Fimbulwinter
forwintered
Hildewintera
in-winter
jacky-winter
jacky winter
King Winter
late-winter
love-in-winter
Madeira winter cherry
mid-winter
midwinter
Old Man Winter
Operation Dark Winter
out-winter
outwinter
overwinter
Pseudowintera
rere-winter
Russian winter white dwarf hamster
Spencer's winter vomiting
squaw winter
summer and winter
Turnip Winter
twinter
unwinter
Villa Winter
Western Winter Blast
wild winterpea
Winter
Wintera
winter aconite
winterage
winteran
winter and winter
winter annual
winter apple
winter barley
winter-beaten
winter bentgrass
winter berry
winterberry
winter-bloom
winter bloom
winter blue
winter blues
winter book
winter boot
winter-bound
winterbourne
winter break
winter bud
winter bunting
winter capital
winter carnival
winter cherry
Winter Circle
winter city
winter-clad
winter-close
winter clover
winter cluster
Winter Coast
winter coat
winter corn
winter cough
winter count
winter country
winter-crack
wintercress
winter cress
winter crookneck
winter crookneck squash
winter crop
winter currant
winter daffodil
winter depression
winter-dress
winter duck
winter dysentery
winter eczema
wintered
Winter-een-mas
winter egg
winter falcon
winter fallow
winter fat
winter-feed
winterfeed
winter fern
Winterfest
winter festival
winter fever
winter finch
winter flounder
winter-flower
winter flowering cherry
Winterfresh
Winter Games
winter garden
winter gillyflower
winter gnat
winter gourd
winter grape
wintergreen
winter greens
winter-ground
winter guard
winter gull
winter-gull
winter-hained
Winter Harbor
Winter Harbour
winterhardy
winter-hardy
Winter Haven
Winterhaven
winter hawk
winter hazel
winter heath
winter heliotrope
winter hellebore
winter hemp
Winter Hexagon
Winter Hill
winter holidays
winter-house
winterhouse
Winteria
winter ice
winteridge
winterim
winterise
winterish
Winter Island
winter itch
winterize
winter jasmine
winter kill
winter-kill
winter-killed
Winter King
winterless
Winter Line
winterling
winter lodge
winter lodgment
winter-long
winter-love
Winterlude
winterly
Winter Magic Festival
winter marjoram
winter melon
winter melon vine
winter-mew
winter mew
winter midge
winter monsoon
winter moon
winter moth
winter mushroom
winter oats
Winterocereus
Winter of Discontent
Winter of Nations
winter oil
winter-old
Winter Olympic Games
Winter Olympics
winter ova
winter-over syndrome
winter packet
Winter Palace
Winter Park
winter peach
winter pear
winter-pick
winter-piece
winter-pride
winter-proud
winter purslane
winter quarters
Winter Queen
winter queening
winter radish
winter range
winter rape
winter rat
winter redbird
winter-rig
winter road
winter rocket
winter rose
winter rules
winter-run fish
winter rye
winters
winter salami
winter savory
winter's bark
Winter's bark
Winter's cinnamon
winter scours
winter shad
winter-shad
winter sheldrake
winter sleep
winter sleeper
winter snipe
winter solstice
wintersome
winter sport
Winter Springs
winter squash
Winter's syndrome
winter-stall
winter storm
winter story
Winterstown
winter strawberry
winter sun
winter sunstead
Wintersville
winter-sweet
winter sweet
wintersweet
winter sweet marjoram
winter swimmer
winter tale
winter teal
winter-thorn
winter tick
wintertide
winter-tide
winter time
wintertime
winter-time
winter tire
Winter Triangle
winter triathlon
winter tyre
winter urn
winter vacation
Winterval
Winterville
winter visitor
winter vomiting disease
winter wagtail
Winter War
winterward
winterwards
winter warfare
winter warmer
winter wash
winter-weed
winterweed
winterweight
winter-weight
winter wheat
Winter White House
winter white Russian hamster
winter wicket
winter woolies
winter woollies
winter worm
winter worm summer grass
winter wren
wintery
wintrous
wintry