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winter

Definition

  • noun: the coldest season of the year that is after autumn and before spring
  • noun: the season between autumn and spring comprising in the northern hemisphere usually the months of December, January, and February or as reckoned astronomically extending from the December solstice to the March equinox
  • verb: to spend the winter in a particular place
  • verb: to pass the winter
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: hibernate, hiems, hiemal

Examples

  • The birds will 'winter' in the southern part of the country.

  • We're in for a cold 'winter' this year, I hear.

  • The farm agreed to 'winter' our horses for us.

Movie quotes

  • (..) like me? How about it? Attaboy, Toto. l only tell you for your own good. Cooped up here. Suffocate in summer, freeze to death in winter. Breathing fumes. And you earn chicken feed. Don't you like anything about it? Oh, it grows on you. (..)
    1988 Cinema Paradiso