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
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
- 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
- Bon Odori is a calm circle dance at Japan's summer Obon festival, which honours the spirits of ancestors.
- Reindeer eyes change from golden in summer to blue in winter, which helps them see in the long dark winter.
- In summer the tundra has huge swarms of mosquitoes, so thick that caribou run to windy hills or snow patches to escape them.
- A beehive on a summer day is a city of about 50,000 bees, and every bee in it has a job.
- In Hawaii, tiger sharks gather every summer when young albatrosses learn to fly and drop into the sea.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «summer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.