Meaning of autumn | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A female given name from English of modern usage, from autumn, the name of the season.
2. 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.
   countable, uncountable
3. 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
4. The time period when someone or something is past its prime
5. The time period when someone or something is past its prime.
   broadly, countable, uncountable
6. A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing
7. A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.
   countable, uncountable
8. To spend the autumn (in a particular place)
9. To (cause to) undergo the changes associated with autumn, such as leaves changing color and falling from trees

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.”

“I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom / I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not've got 'em”

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

“It has been portrayed as the well-intended yet wrongly directed reaction to latter-day scholasticism, or as the harvest of medieval theology in its autumn years, as a revolution that is theological, political, economic, cultural—or all of the above.”

“Unlike the decline of British hegemony, in the current world-system no military or economic contender has emerged to replace US hegemony. Even though the US SCA has entered its autumn with the Vietname War and the economic crisis of the mid-1970s, there has been no legitimate hegemonic contender capable of instituting a new global regime to resolve both social and economic contradictions of global capitalism.”

“The autumn of life is also a matter of saying farewell, but the strange thing is that I do not feel it is autumn.”

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