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autumn

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
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 ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...

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.