summer
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 →
2) Summer holidays (US: summer vacation) are the long break from school in summer. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: God's promise after the flood that summer and winter will not cease is read as the promise of the steady order of nature. In the primary 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
- While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.' (Torah GEN.8.22, JPS 1917) tree →
- Lecture before the Hermetic Society of London in the summer of 1886, Dr. Anna Kingsford, President, in the chair. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- The substance of this little volume was read as a [p. 13] Lecture before the Hermetic Society of London in the summer of 1886, Dr. Anna Kingsford, President, in the chair. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- Provideth her bread in the summer, and gatherest her food in the harvest. (Writings PRO.6.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- 'The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.' (Prophets JER.8.20, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and behold a basket of summer fruit. (Prophets AMO.8.1, JPS 1917) tree →
- She read 12 books during the summer. tree →
- The summer holiday lasts 8 weeks. tree →
- He earns 10 dollars a day in the summer. tree →
- The pool opens every summer. tree →
- In Australia, Christmas comes in summer. tree →
- Wear a hat and sun cream on hot summer days. tree →
- The days are longest in summer. tree →
- We went to summer camp by the lake. tree →
- A hard winter followed this summer. tree →
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
- 'The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.'
- Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and behold a basket of summer fruit.
- For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me; my sap was turned as in the droughts of summer.
- Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; Thou hast made summer and winter.
- Provideth her bread in the summer, and gatherest her food in the harvest.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «summer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.