Thesaurus: winter
The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.
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Definitions
- n. The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.
- n. The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
- v. i. To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florida.
- v. i. To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.
- n. the coldest season of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox
- v. spend the winter
- To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florida.Because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more partadvised to depart thence. Acts xxvii. 12.
- v:2/n:98 n. the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox v. spend the winter