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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
autumn
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a spring/summer/autumn/winter flower
▪ The mountainsides were blanketed with spring flowers.
autumn leaves (also fall leaves American English) (= leaves that have changed colour or fallen in autumn)
▪ I love the colours of the autumn leaves.
autumn mist(s)
▪ The field looked magical in the autumn mist.
the spring/summer/autumn term
▪ Mrs Collins will be leaving us at the end of the summer term.
the spring/summer/autumn/winter sunshine
▪ She was sitting in the garden, enjoying the spring sunshine.
the summer/autumn/winter/spring months
▪ It's very cold here during the winter months.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ These colours work particularly well in late summer and early autumn, when sunshine becomes more golden and mellow.
▪ It was early autumn, and downtown the sun was bright in the unlit lobby.
▪ For collectors and aviation enthusiasts the early autumn of 1992 produced no less than four major auctions with an accent on matters aeronautical.
▪ In the early autumn of the first year of the war, he had closed the office for several days.
▪ A conference to launch the notes and the training material is expected in the early autumn.
▪ Which means he should be showing up sometime in early autumn.
▪ Daffodils like to be planted as early in the autumn as possible so get those in now.
▪ Firmer proposals should be available by early autumn this year, and more information will be sent to centres at that time.
late
▪ If layered in August, the new plant should be ready to move by late autumn or the following spring.
▪ The prospect of sailing into the late autumn was itself the major worry.
▪ It was originally thought the contract could be given last year with work starting in late autumn.
▪ Sailing a bamboo raft through the late autumn and early winter storms was definitely perilous.
▪ Waste of land is thus avoided, and there is a surplus of top-quality produce for sale in late autumn and winter.
▪ Traditionally, the layering process ends in late autumn with the addition of fresh pineapple chunks.
▪ One late autumn afternoon Snowy failed to turn up for his meal, so his master went out to look for him.
▪ Some through passage perhaps occurs in late autumn and is clearly discernable in late March and April.
previous
▪ Comment on the dollar had been sombre for much of the year in the train of developments the previous autumn.
▪ The previous autumn, the muggy monsoon heat had begun to diminish on the very day following the festival of Dusshera.
▪ After his good showing the previous autumn Nathan was coming too.
▪ Examine all those planted the previous autumn and winter to see that the soil has not been loosened by frost.
■ NOUN
day
▪ I am meeting Enya and the Ryans somewhere near her carefully guarded Killiney residence on a silvery wet and foggy autumn day.
▪ The sky had taken on the faint green cast of an autumn day.
▪ They went to lunch at Fiesole on a perfect autumn day.
▪ I flew into Lindbergh on a gorgeous autumn day.
▪ It is a sunny autumn day.
▪ It was a gray, cool autumn day and all the bees were home, now agitated by the surgery.
▪ On mild autumn days, pond fish will be feeding enthusiastically, building up their fat reserves.
▪ On this gloomy autumn day, there were gray and yellowish skies lowering over the rooftops of Warsaw.
evening
▪ He took encore after encore until the thinning crowd finally disappeared into the dark autumn evening.
▪ I go to the movies by myself one autumn evening.
▪ It is 7.30 on a mild, wet autumn evening in Paris, two weeks before the fashion shows.
▪ On a muddy autumn evening, we had sworn to love each other for ever.
▪ One autumn evening in 1944, twenty new prisoners arrived in the compound unexpectedly.
▪ It was a fine autumn evening in 1922.
▪ The thought of a cold classroom on an autumn evening is the last thing she probably wants!
▪ Autumn By autumn evenings Orion has set soon after darkness, but Sirius and Canopus are still high.
leave
▪ In the gutter and against railings caches of autumn leaves were turning black with rot, a reminder of the distant summer.
▪ Under his feet, fallen apples were mixed in with the first autumn leaves.
▪ It could be cherry blossom petals or autumn leaves or slush and snow.
▪ I went into the field and gathered autumn leaves and flowers and put them in jam jars around the cottage.
statement
▪ The autumn statement shows that spending on science and technology in 1992-93 will be almost £6 billion.
▪ Will he further confirm that the 11 percent. increase in the autumn statement is bound to be helpful?
▪ The Chief Secretary has spoken for 22 minutes but has not mentioned the autumn statement.
▪ In his autumn statement on 6 November, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced his public expenditure plans.
▪ What is the Opposition's alternative to the autumn statement?
▪ The Chancellor did his best in the autumn statement.
▪ The Government produced in the autumn statement a graph of consumer confidence.
term
▪ He hadn't wondered where her clothes were when he'd returned to Primrose Cottage at the end of that autumn term.
▪ Two-thirds of five to seven-year-olds and half of eight to 11-year-olds are looking forward to the autumn term.
▪ Had they used a police car, it would have taken them longer, for this was the autumn term.
▪ The beginning of the autumn term was, apart from exams, her busiest time of year.
▪ It was decided to postpone the survey until the autumn term.
▪ He went back to Cuddesdon for the autumn term, but the mental condition was very adverse.
▪ They were a fellow short, and the start of the autumn term is a terrible time to get a replacement.
■ VERB
begin
▪ A slow process of rapprochement therefore began in the autumn of 1943.
▪ Autumn began, autumn passed, and winter began, 1963 into 1964.
▪ Now the administration is proclaiming it as the solution to the dramatic slowdown in the economy that began last autumn.
▪ But I know that the money will not last if you do not begin your studies this autumn.
▪ It was the beginning of the summer, three months before college began in the autumn.
▪ The worst time began in the autumn of 1810, which year had up to then been one of peak earnings.
▪ The research began in the autumn of 1986.
publish
▪ A strategic overview on the issue would be published in an autumn white paper.
▪ The novel will be published next autumn.
▪ The Beatles Anthology will be published this autumn.
▪ A new edition of her book, Good Children, is being published this autumn.
▪ Antoine Bloye was published in the autumn of 1933.
start
▪ Valerie was asked to give regular classes and hopes to be able to start these in the autumn.
▪ This would earn Moscow substantial transit fees once the first oil starts flowing next autumn.
▪ If all goes well, you may be able to go back to school when the new year starts in the autumn.
▪ It was originally thought the contract could be given last year with work starting in late autumn.
▪ Overhead wiring will get under way early this year, with test running to start in the autumn.
▪ Bohunt volunteered for the first year, which started last autumn.
▪ But the Saturday class for young musicians will start this autumn in temporary premises.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Autumn began, autumn passed, and winter began, 1963 into 1964.
▪ And in the autumn a Race Night is planned as well as a Dinner Dance.
▪ In lambs, patent infections first occur in early summer, but the heaviest infections are usually seen in autumn.
▪ It was not until autumn that Jennifer found herself in the city again.
▪ No recent change in status is apparent, except that some decline in autumn passage may have occurred.
▪ Only during the time of the spring and autumn equinoxes do our aquariums have a tropical day.
▪ Or go for lowlights in a rich autumn glow.
▪ Shortly after Norah's departure, Louise was fitted for her autumn suits.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Autumn

Autumn \Au"tumn\, n. [L. auctumnus, autumnus, perh. fr. a root av to satisfy one's self: cf. F. automne. See Avarice.]

  1. The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called ``the fall.'' Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.

    Note: In England, according to Johnson, autumn popularly comprises August, September, and October. In the southern hemisphere, the autumn corresponds to our spring.

  2. The harvest or fruits of autumn.
    --Milton.

  3. The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.

    Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor.
    --Fuller.

    Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge.
    --Wordsworth.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
autumn

late 14c., autumpne (modern form from 16c.), from Old French autumpne, automne (13c.), from Latin autumnus (also auctumnus, perhaps influenced by auctus "increase"), which is of unknown origin. Perhaps from Etruscan, but Tucker suggests a meaning "drying-up season" and a root in *auq- (which would suggest the form in -c- was the original) and compares archaic English sere-month "August."\n

\nHarvest was the English name for the season until autumn began to displace it 16c. In Britain, the season is popularly August through October; in U.S., September through November. Compare Italian autunno, Spanish otoño, Portuguese outono, all from the Latin word. Unlike the other three seasons, its names across the Indo-European languages leave no evidence that there ever was a common word for it.\n

\nMany "autumn" words mean "end, end of summer," or "harvest." Compare also Lithuanian ruduo "autumn," from rudas "reddish," in reference to leaves; Old Irish fogamar, literally "under-winter."

Wiktionary
autumn

a. Of or relating to autumn. n. Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves; typically regarded as being from September 24 to December 22 in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere.

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WordNet
autumn

n. the season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973" [syn: fall]

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Wikipedia
Autumn

Autumn, also known as fall in North America, is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, in September ( Northern Hemisphere) or March ( Southern Hemisphere), when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier and the temperature cools considerably. One of its main features is the shedding of leaves from deciduous trees.

Some cultures regard the autumnal equinox as "mid-autumn", while others with a longer temperature lag treat it as the start of autumn. Meteorologists (and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, and March, April and May in the southern hemisphere.

In North America, autumn is usually considered to start with the September equinox and end with the winter solstice (21 or 22 December). Popular culture in North America associates Labor Day, the first Monday in September, as the end of summer and the start of autumn; certain summer traditions, such as wearing white, are discouraged after that date. As daytime and nighttime temperatures decrease, trees shed their leaves. In traditional East Asian solar term, autumn starts on or around 8 August and ends on or about 7 November. In Ireland, the autumn months according to the national meteorological service, Met Éireann, are September, October and November. However, according to the Irish Calendar, which is based on ancient Gaelic traditions, autumn lasts throughout the months of August, September and October, or possibly a few days later, depending on tradition. In Australia and New Zealand, autumn officially begins on 1 March and ends on 31 May.

Autumn (band)

Not to be confused with an Australian band of the same name.

Autumn is a Dutch female fronted heavy rock band formed in 1995.

Autumn (George Winston album)

Autumn is the second solo piano album by pianist George Winston, released in 1980. It was re-issued in 2001 with a bonus track "Too Much Between Us" on the Dancing Cat label.

The Indiana rock band Brazil sampled a portion of "Sea" for the beginning of the song "It Keeps the Machine Running" from their Dasein EP. Winston does not receive credit in the liner notes.

Autumn (disambiguation)

Autumn is one of the four temperate seasons.

Autumn may also refer to:

Autumn (song)

"Autumn" is a three-part song by English band Strawbs featured on their 1974 album Hero and Heroine. The final part "The Winter Long" was released as a single in 1974 under the title "Hold on to Me (The Winter Long)."

Autumn (given name)

Autumn is a feminine given name derived from the Latin word autumnus, meaning " fall" or " autumn".

The name has been in use in the United States since at least the 1970s and has been ranked among the top 100 names for girls there for the past 10 years. It was the 81st most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2009. It was the 80th most popular name for girls born in British Columbia, Canada in 2008.

Autumn (Subtle EP)

Autumn is the second EP by American alternative hip hop sextet Subtle. It was released in 2002 on the A Purple 100 label. It is now out of print.

The tracks "Arsenic Chic" and "Earthsick" also appear on Earthsick, a compilation of material from the group's Season EPs.

Autumn (2008 film)

Autumn (Turkish: Sonbahar) is drama-genred film by Turkish director Özcan Alper, filmed trilingually in Turkish, Georgian, and Homshetsi Armenian. It was filmed in Hopa, Çamlıhemşin, and Kemalpaşa. It profiles the post-life of a 22-year-old imprisoned university student named Yusuf.

Autumn (1930 film)

Autumn is a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short film. It was released in 1930.

Autumn (Don Ellis album)

Autumn is an album by trumpeter Don Ellis recorded in 1968 and released on the Columbia label.

Autumn (2009 film)

Autumn is a 2009 Canadian horror film directed by Steven Rumbelow, written by David Moody and Rumbelow, and starring Dexter Fletcher. It was based on Moody's self-published novel Autumn. Fletcher plays a schoolteacher who must survive in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by evolving zombies.

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Usage examples of "autumn".

He walked across the architrave to stand above the Dhaila every night, though it did not stop time from flowing and autumn from fleeting on its seasonal path.

Bull of Mithras in Autumn: and in the Stars that correspond with the Autumnal Equinox we find those malevolent genii that ever war against the Principle of good, and that take from the Sun and the Heavens the fruit-producing power that they communicate to the earth.

And for the autumn, at the back of her border, there were orange and yellow chrysanths, but a totally different orange and yellow from the nasturtiums, much deeper, much more autumny, and also tall rain-smelling Michaelmas daisies.

Earth tones compliment the autumn shades the beautician adds to my hair.

The mattress was still fragrant with bedstraw gathered in the golden days of autumn but the linen wanted washing, if not today then soon.

Patient as a fox on a long scent in autumn, he would have kept himself lean and circumspect, until, through the help of lugubrious prayer and lantern visage, he could have beguiled into matrimony some one feminine member of the flock--not always fair--whose worldly goods would have sufficed in full atonement for all those circumspect, self-imposed restraints, which we find asually so well rewarded.

She remembered a clear autumn night five years ago when she had led Bounder, docile as a lamb, to the front veranda of the homestead, where the boss sat in a straight-back chair watching her with his unflinching gaze.

The seasons consist of two bright springs, two sweet summers and two golden autumns of bounteous harvest.

The Autumn rain-rot deeper and wider soaks And spreads, the burden of Winter heavier weighs, His melancholy close and closer yet Cleaves, and those incantations of the Spring That made the heart a centre of miracles Grow formal, and the wonder-working bours Arise no more--no more.

Football was an autumn sport, and Bret found himself restless during the rest of the year.

Removing the brigandine, they found the inside of the velvet-padded armour covered in small droplets of wet blood, looking not unlike the hips and haws which decorate rose briars and hawthorns in the autumn.

There were many, many burrowers here on the tundra this autumn, many more than last year.

Elizabeth could scarcely ever remember seeing him outside his wall, except at the autumn horticultural shows.

Autumn was a time of sorting out the daffodil bulbs with their malathion stink, brushing their onionskin coatings from overly thick sweaters knit by two grandmothers who refused to speak English while they carded wool.

One day, shortly after their return to town in the autumn from the brief summer outing they permitted themselves, the Marches met Margaret Vance.