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winters

Win·ters
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [win-terz]
    • /ˈwɪn tərz/
    • /ˈwɪn.tər/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [win-terz]
    • /ˈwɪn tərz/

Definitions of winters word

  • noun winters the cold season between autumn and spring in northern latitudes (in the Northern Hemisphere from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox; in the Southern Hemisphere from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox). 1
  • noun winters the months of December, January, and February in the U.S., and of November, December, and January in Great Britain. 1
  • noun winters cold weather: a touch of winter in northern Florida. 1
  • noun winters the colder half of the year (opposed to summer). 1
  • noun winters a whole year as represented by this season: a man of sixty winters. 1
  • noun winters a period like winter, as the last or final period of life; a period of decline, decay, inertia, dreariness, or adversity. 1
See all 14 definitions of winters

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Origin of winters

First appearance:

before 900
One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; (noun) Middle English, Old English; cognate with German Winter, Old Norse vetr, Gothic wintrus; (v.) Middle English, derivative of the noun; akin to wet, water

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Parts of speech for Winters

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Winters

winters popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 80% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for winters

noun winters

  • seasons — an oratorio (1801) by Franz Joseph Haydn.
  • colds — Plural form of cold.
  • chills — Plural form of chill.
  • frosts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of frost.
  • ends — Plural form of end.
All 9 Synonyms of winters

Antonyms for winters

noun winters

  • heats — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heat.
Just one Antonym for winters

Related words

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    a black-capped tern, Sterna paradisea, that breeds in the Arctic and then migrates as far south as the Antarctic

  • bobolink

    an American songbird, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, the male of which has a white back and black underparts in the breeding season: family Icteridae (American orioles)

  • bristle-thighed curlew

    an Alaskan curlew, Numenius tahitiensis, that winters in Polynesia, having bristlelike feathers on its thighs.

  • mediterranean climate

    a climate characterized by warm, dry summers and rainy winters

  • mutton bird

    any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.

  • semievergreen

    retaining green, unwithered leaves for part of the winter or through comparatively mild winters.
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