autumn

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves, and…

   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.

   • autumn leaves
   • The Spring, the Sommer, / The childing Autumne, angry Winter change / Their wonted Liueries, […]
   • 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.
2. 2

   The time period when someone or something is past its prime.

   • She has beauty still, and if it be not in its heyday, it is not yet in its autumn.
3. 3

   A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain…

   A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.

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   1. 4

      To spend the autumn (in a particular place).

      • True it is that, owing to the migratory propensities of our countrymen, every third man has wintered at Naples, springed at Vienna, summered in Switzerland, and autumned on the banks of the Lago Maggiore;
      • If Tad’s father and Tad had wintered, springed, summered, and autumned together for an hundred years instead of fifteen they could[…]
      • They wintered in a warm place / And summered in a cold, / But where they springed and autumned / I never have been told.
   2. 5

      To (cause to) undergo the changes associated with autumn, such as leaves changing color…

      To (cause to) undergo the changes associated with autumn, such as leaves changing color and falling from trees.

      • […]he himself roamed with innocent Kate through the fast autumning woods[…]
      • She turns off towards the river, where the lawns lie autumned on the banks between the frayed golden willow branches.
   3. 6

      A female given name from English of modern usage, from autumn, the name of the season.

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• neighborautumnal equinox
• neighborautumnian
• neighborautumnity
• neighborColchichum autumnale
• neighborCoregonus autumnalis
• neighborCoregonus autumnalis migratorius
• neighborDendrocygna autumnalis
• neighborEpirrita autumnata
• neighborGalerina autumnalis
• neighborHelenium autumnale