autumn

1. 1.

   the season when the leaves fall from the trees

   “in the fall of 1973”

   Synonymsfall

   Broaderseason

   PartsIndian summerautumnal equinox

Other forms of autumn

plural

autumns·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about autumn

What does autumn mean?

autumn means "the season when the leaves fall from the trees".

How many syllables are in autumn?

autumn has 2 syllables: au-tumn. The stress falls on "au". In IPA it is /ˈɔtəm/.

What is another word for autumn?

Close synonyms include fall. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is autumn a common word?

autumn is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.