winter
nounEtymology
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, Swedish and Norwegian vinter (“winter”), Icelandic vetur (“winter”).
Definitions
Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as spanning either the…
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.
- And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold.
The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
- 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.
Someone with dark skin, eyes and hair, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
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An appliance to be fixed on the front of a grate, to keep a kettle warm, etc.
The rainy season.
- 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 […]
To spend the winter (in a particular place).
- 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.
To store something (for instance animals) somewhere over winter to protect it from cold.
A surname from the Germanic languages.
A unisex given name.
A placename
A placename:
The personification of winter, wintertime.
Alternative letter-case form of winter.
The neighborhood
- neighborAI winter
- neighboratomic winter
- neighborblackberry winter
- neighborblackthorn winter
- neighbordogwood winter
- neighborGeneral Winter
- neighborimpact winter
- neighborKondratiev winter
- neighborLong Winter
- neighbormeteorological winter
- neighbornuclear winter
- neighborRussian winter
Derived
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 · +254 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at winter. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at winter. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at winter
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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