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au·tumn
(ô′təm)n.
1. The season of the year between summer and winter, during which the weather becomes cooler and many plants become dormant, extending in the Northern Hemisphere from the autumnal equinox to the winter solstice and popularly considered to include the months of September, October, and November; fall. In the Southern Hemisphere autumn includes March, April, and May.
2. A period of maturity verging on decline.
adj.
1. Relating to or occurring in autumn: autumn foliage; autumn harvests.
2. Grown during the season of autumn: autumn crops.
[Middle English autumpne, from Old French autompne, from Latin autumnus.]
au·tum′nal (ô-tŭm′nəl) adj.
au·tum′nal·ly adv.
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autumn
(ˈɔːtəm)n
1. (sometimes capital)
a. Also called (esp US): fall the season of the year between summer and winter, astronomically from the September equinox to the December solstice in the N hemisphere and from the March equinox to the June solstice in the S hemisphere
b. (as modifier): autumn leaves.
2. a period of late maturity, esp one followed by a decline
[C14: from Latin autumnus, perhaps of Etruscan origin]
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au•tumn
(ˈɔ təm)n.
1. the season between summer and winter; fall: in the Northern Hemisphere, from the September equinox to the December solstice; in the Southern Hemisphere, from the March equinox to the June solstice.
2. a time of full maturity, esp. the late stages of maturity or the early stages of decline.
[1325–75; autompne < Latin autumnus]
au•tum•nal (ɔˈtʌm nl) adj.
au•tum′nal•ly, adv.
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au·tumn
(ô′təm) The season of the year occurring between summer and winter. In the Northern Hemisphere, it extends from the autumnal equinox to the winter solstice.
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autumn
In British English, autumn or the autumn is the season between summer and winter.
Saturday was the first day of autumn.
The vote will take place in the autumn.
If you want to say that something happens every year during this season, you say that it happens in autumn or in the autumn.
In autumn the berries turn orange.
Birth rates are lowest in the autumn.
Be Careful!
Don't say that something happens 'in the autumns'.
In American English, autumn is referred to as the fall.
In the fall we are going to England.
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| Noun | 1. |  autumn - the season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973"Indian summer, Saint Martin's summer - a period of unusually warm weather in the autumn time of year, season - one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions; "the regular sequence of the seasons" |
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autumn
nounRelated words
adjective autumnal
adjective autumnal
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Translations
الـخَرِيففَصل الخَريف
podzim
efterår
aŭtuno
sügis
syksysyksyinen
jesen
ősz
haust
秋
가을
autumnus
ruduorudeninis
rudens
toamnă
jesen
јесен
höst
ฤดูใบไม้ร่วง
mùa thu
autumn
[ˈɔːtəm] N (esp Brit) → otoño min autumn → en otoño
I like to go walking in (the) autumn → me gusta salir a pasear en otoño
in the autumn of 1998 → en el otoño de 1998
in early/late autumn → a principios/a finales del otoño
an autumn day → un día de otoño
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autumn
(esp Brit)Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
autumn
(ˈoːtəm) noun (American fall) the season of the year when leaves change colour and fall and fruits ripen.
autumnal (oːˈtamnəl) adjectiveKernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
autumn
→ الـخَرِيف podzim efterår Herbst φθινόπωρο otoño syksy automne jesen autunno 秋 가을 herfst høst jesień outono осень höst ฤดูใบไม้ร่วง sonbahar mùa thu 秋天Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
autumn
n otoñoEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.