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autumnful

noun

Etymology

From autumn + -ful.

  1. derived from autumnāre
  2. derived from autumnus
  3. derived from automne
  4. derived from automne
  5. inherited from autumpne
  6. suffixed as autumnful — “autumn + ful”

Definitions

  1. An amount that lasts through or is produced during one autumn season.

    • One is of a duck, for all its feathered glory, lying unaccountably dead in the midst of an autumnful of fruit; the other an idyl, a meadow-curving pregnancy of bloom becoming orchard, the sunlight busy with its probes.
    • Aldo and Carl had an autumnful of grouse and pheasant hunts, using the shack as basecamp for excursions into the tamarack swamps of Adams County.
    • The dirt was humid and black, difficult to find under several autumnfuls of leaves, but a few scattered spots of neon yellow stood out.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA