summer

1. 1.

   spend the summer

   “We summered in Kashmir”

   Broaderspend

Other forms of summer

plural

summers·

past tense

summerred·

present participle

summerring·

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 summer

What does summer mean?

summer means "the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in summer?

summer has 2 syllables: sum-mer. The stress falls on "sum". In IPA it is /ˈsʌmɚ/.

What is another word for summer?

Close synonyms include summertime. 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 summer a common word?

summer is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with summer?

1 word rhymes with summer. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.