Winter


noun
1.
the cold season between autumn and spring in northern latitudes (in the Northern Hemisphere from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox; in the Southern Hemisphere from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox).
2.
the months of December, January, and February in the U.S., and of November, December, and January in Great Britain.
3.
cold weather:
a touch of winter in northern Florida.
4.
the colder half of the year (opposed to summer).
5.
a whole year as represented by this season:
a man of sixty winters.
6.
a period like winter, as the last or final period of life; a period of decline, decay, inertia, dreariness, or adversity.
adjective
7.
of, relating to, or characteristic of winter:
a winter sunset.
8.
(of fruit and vegetables) of a kind that may be kept for use during the winter.
9.
planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer:
winter rye.
verb (used without object)
10.
to spend or pass the winter:
to winter in Italy.
11.
to keep, feed, or manage during the winter, as plants or cattle:
plants wintering indoors.
noun
1.

(sometimes capital) the coldest season of the year, between autumn and spring, astronomically from the December solstice to the March equinox in the N hemisphere and at the opposite time of year in the S hemisphere
(as modifier): winter pasture

2.
the period of cold weather associated with the winter
3.
a time of decline, decay, etc
4.
(mainly poetic) a year represented by this season: a man of 72 winters, related adjectives brumal hibernal hiemal
verb
5.
(intransitive) to spend the winter in a specified place
6.
to keep or feed (farm animals, etc) during the winter or (of farm animals) to be kept or fed during the winter

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