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SUMMERTIME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
Example:
they spent a lazy summer at the shore
Synonyms:
summer; summertime
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("summertime" is a kind of...):
season; time of year (one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions)
Meronyms (parts of "summertime"):
June 21; midsummer; summer solstice (June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point)
canicular days; canicule; dog days (the hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity)
