autumn

«autumn» in Mova's school dictionary: the season between summer and winter, when leaves change… — 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 (autumn, autumns); adjective use (autumn leaves)

meaning for a pupil

1) Autumn is the season between summer and winter, when leaves change colour and fall and days get shorter and cooler. tree →

2) In American English it is mostly called fall. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons on seasons, autumn is when many trees lose their leaves, animals store food or prepare to hibernate, and birds migrate. In the Northern Hemisphere (UK, Ireland, USA, Canada) autumn is September to November; in the Southern Hemisphere (Australia, New Zealand) it is March to May. In school, autumn term is the first term in the UK. Phrases: in autumn, autumn leaves, autumn term, autumn colours.

examples

• In autumn the leaves turn red and gold. tree →
• Squirrels bury nuts in autumn. tree →
• We collected conkers in autumn. tree →
• The autumn term starts in September. tree →
• Days get shorter in autumn. tree →
• In Australia, autumn comes in March. tree →
• Hedgehogs get ready to hibernate in autumn. tree →
• I love jumping in piles of autumn leaves. tree →
• It was growing late in the autumn. tree →

note

Silent n at the end: au-tumn («AW-tum»), but you hear it in autumnal. No capital letter: autumn, not Autumn (unless starting a sentence). American English says «fall». The seasons are opposite in the two hemispheres.

In the corpora

• Brown bears, including grizzlies, catch salmon at waterfalls in autumn to build up fat before winter.
• The hazel dormouse can hibernate for six months or more, after fattening up on hazelnuts and berries in autumn.
• Dew collects on the cool threads at night and shows how many webs there are, often thousands in a garden in autumn.
• In autumn many house spiders run across the floor because the males are wandering in search of females.
• Imagine growing a pair of bony branches on your head every summer, fighting with them in autumn and dropping them in winter.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «autumn» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.