winter
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fashion
lifestyle
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, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish vinter (“winter”), Faroese and Icelandic vetur (“winter”).
Inflected forms:
form: winters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Winter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: winters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wintering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wintered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wintered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Winter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as spanning either the period between the winter solstice to the spring equinox, or the months of December, January, and February in temperate and polar regions of the Northern Hemisphere and 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
And after summer evermore succeeds
 Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold.
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.
There shall he learn, ere sixteen winters old,
That …
[…] a woman, tall, and strong of aspect, of some thirty winters by seeming, [...]
gloss: The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
poetic
uncountable
examples: Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge.
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.
gloss: Someone with dark skin, eyes and hair, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An appliance to be fixed on the front of a grate, to keep a kettle warm, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The rainy season.
pos: noun
tags: India
archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
In Winter (when they rarely stir) they have a Mumjama, or Wax Cloth to throw over it […]
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, […]
gloss: To spend the winter (in a particular place).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When they retired, they hoped to winter in Florida.
Those who seek to invade another country anywhere across the great Eurasian steppes are condemned eventually to winter in it.
gloss: To store something (for instance animals) somewhere over winter to protect it from cold.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Derived words: Arab Winter
Arctic Winter Games
Austrian winter pea
beady-legged winter horse tick
bewinter
buy straw hats in winter
Canella winterana
Chinese winter squash
cryptowinter
crypto winter
dead of winter
demographic 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
midwinter
mid-winter
Old Man Winter
Operation Dark Winter
outwinter
out-winter
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
winter cress
wintercress
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
winterfeed
winter-feed
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
winterhouse
winter-house
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
Winterport
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
winter-tide
wintertide
winter-time
wintertime
winter time
winter tire
Winter Triangle
winter triathlon
winter tyre
winter urn
winter vacation
Winterval
Winter Valley
Winterville
winter visitor
winter vomiting disease
winter wagtail
Winter War
winterward
winterwards
winter warfare
winter warmer
winter wash
winter-weed
winterweed
winter-weight
winterweight
winter wheat
Winter White House
winter white Russian hamster
winter wicket
winter wonderland
winter woolies
winter woollies
winter worm
winter worm summer grass
winter wren
wintery
wintrous
wintry
overwinter
Wintered Over Device
winterer
wintering
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