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# summer

«summer» in Mova's school dictionary: **the warmest season of the year, between spring and autumn…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (summer, summers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Summer is the warmest season of the year, between spring and autumn (fall). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summer/#m1)

2) Summer holidays (US: summer vacation) are the long break from school in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A time of the story: summer holidays, summer jobs, things done during the summer, weeks of summer. Science: summer has the longest days; in the Southern Hemisphere (Australia, New Zealand) summer comes at the opposite time of year from the Northern (USA, UK, Canada). Safety: sun cream, hats, water in summer heat.

### examples

- She read 12 books during the summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summer/#x1)
- The summer holiday lasts 8 weeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summer/#x2)
- He earns 10 dollars a day in the summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summer/#x3)
- The pool opens every summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summer/#x4)
- In Australia, Christmas comes in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summer/#x5)
- Wear a hat and sun cream on hot summer days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summer/#x6)
- The days are longest in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summer/#x7)
- We went to summer camp by the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summer/#x8)
- A hard winter followed this summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summer/#x9)

### note

Countable: a summer, summers; no capital letter. A time frame, no operation. Trap: if a problem gives a weekly amount over «the summer», you need the number of weeks. Seasons: spring, summer, autumn (fall), winter.

### In the corpora

- [Bon Odori is a calm circle dance at Japan's summer Obon festival, which honours the spirits of ancestors.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/12/)
- [Reindeer eyes change from golden in summer to blue in winter, which helps them see in the long dark winter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer/10/)
- [In summer the tundra has huge swarms of mosquitoes, so thick that caribou run to windy hills or snow patches to escape them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/14/)
- [A beehive on a summer day is a city of about 50,000 bees, and every bee in it has a job.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey/0/)
- [In Hawaii, tiger sharks gather every summer when young albatrosses learn to fly and drop into the sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «summer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/summer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.