autumn
Definitions
- A female given name from English of modern usage, from autumn, the name of the season.
- 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.
- 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
- The time period when someone or something is past its prime
- The time period when someone or something is past its prime.
- A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing
- A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.
- To spend the autumn (in a particular place)
- To (cause to) undergo the changes associated with autumn, such as leaves changing color and falling from trees
Equivalents
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Afrikaansherfs
Българскиесен
བོད་སྐད།སྟོན་ཀ
Catalàtardor
CymraegHydref
Ελληνικάφθινόπωρο
Esperantoaŭtuno
Eestisügis
Euskaraudazken
Gaeilgefómhar
Gàidhligfoghar
Galegooutono
ગુજરાતીપાનખર
Magyarősz
Հայերենաշուն
Bahasa Indonesiamusim gugur
Íslenskahaust
Italianoautunno
ქართულიშემოდგომა
Қазақ тілікүз
ភាសាខ្មែរសរទៈ
Кыргызчакүз
LëtzebuergeschHierscht
Lietuviųruduo
Latviešurudens
Malagasyfararano
Македонскиесен
Maltiħarifa
မြန်မာဆောင်းဦး
नेपालीशरद
ਪੰਜਾਬੀਪਤਝੜ
پښتوخزان
Portuguêsoutono
Românătoamnă
Русскийосень
سنڌيسرءُ
Slovenčinajeseň
Slovenščinajesen
Svenskahöst
Kiswahilivuli
Türkmençegüýz
Tagalogtaglagas
ئۇيغۇرچەكۈز
O'zbekchakuz
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.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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