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  1. noun The usually warmest season of the year, occurring between spring and autumn and constituting June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere, or, as calculated astronomically, extending from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox.
  2. noun A period of fruition, fulfillment, happiness, or beauty.
  3. noun A year: a girl of 13 summers.
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  • "Sufficient for the summer is the evil thereof, viz., one distant country excursion." —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Gibbon, by James Cotter Morison
  • Children who complete their reading goals for the summer will be awarded their own professionally printed personal READ poster with their picture on it.
  • Perhaps the nicest thing this summer was the lack of smoke!!! —  Views From the Back Row
  • TORONTO - The story of the summer has been the ever falling rain. —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • His trip home from San Francisco this summer was a long one because he stopped at concerts from San Francisco to Utica, she said. —  The Observer-Dispatch Home RSS
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  1. Middle English sumer, from Old English sumor; see sem-2 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, beam, pack animal, from Anglo-Norman sumer, from Vulgar Latin *saumārius, from Late Latin sagmārius, pertaining to a packsaddle, packhorse, from sagma, packsaddle; see sumpter.

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  1. Early modern English also sommer; from Middle English somer, sumer, from Anglo-Saxon sumer, sumor = Old Saxon sumar = OFries. somer, sumur = Middle Dutch somer, Dutch zomer = Middle Low German somer, Low German sommer = Old High German sumar, Middle High German sumer, German sommer = Icelandic sumar = Swedish sommar = Danish sommer (Gothic (Moesogothic) not recorded), summer; akin to Old Irish sam, Irish sam, samh, summer, sun (Old Irish samrad, samradh, summer), = OW. ham, Welsh haf, summer, = Armenian am, year (amarn, summer), = Sanskrit samā, year, = Zend hama, summer.
  2. Early modern English also sommer; from Middle English somer, from Old French somier, sommier, *sumier, sumer, French sommier = Provencal saumier = Italian somiere, somaro, a pack-horse, also a beam, from Middle Latin sagmarius, sugmarius, samarius, saumarius, somarius, summarius, a pack-horse, properly adjective, sc. caballus, from sagma, Middle Latin also sauma, salma, a pack, burden, from Greek σάγμα, a pack-saddle: see seam. Cf. German saumer, säumer, a pack-horse; and see sumpter, from the same ult. source. For the use of summer, ‘pack-horse,’ in the sense ‘beam’ (as bearing weight), cf. English horse, easel, in similar uses.
  3. from sum + -er.
 

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