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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
autumnal
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
morning/autumnal/January etc chill
▪ Suddenly aware of the morning chill, she closed the window.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
autumnal colors
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although today began with a cool, misty, autumnal twist, it turned out gloriously fine and bright.
▪ An autumnal garden bordered by shrubs ... a maid, Paula, trimming them.
▪ It had been a warm autumnal day in early October and she, Alex and her father were working in the garden.
▪ Similarly, in the second movement there is no warmth of phrase, no atmosphere, no autumnal beauty.
▪ The leaves of herb Robert were changing already to an autumnal red.
▪ The springtime delicacy of their budding stands in terrific contrast to the autumnal head beneath.
▪ The taste itself is autumnal, earthy, like that of a pecan or walnut.
▪ This was his St Martin's summer, an autumnal madness, nothing that the first cold of winter couldn't wither.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Autumnal

Autumnal \Au*tum"nal\, a. [L. auctumnalis, autumnalis: cf. F. automnal.]

  1. Of, belonging to, or peculiar to, autumn; as, an autumnal tint; produced or gathered in autumn; as, autumnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant.

    Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa.
    --Milton.

  2. Past the middle of life; in the third stage.

    An autumnal matron.
    --Hawthorne.

    Autumnal equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator, as it proceeds southward, or when it passes the autumnal point.

    Autumnal point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra.

    Autumnal signs, the signs Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, through which the sun passes between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
autumnal

1570s, from Latin autumnalis "pertaining to autumn," from autumnus (see autumn).

Wiktionary
autumnal

a. 1 Of or relating to autumn. 2 Past the middle of life; in the third stage.

WordNet
autumnal
  1. adj. of or characteristic of or occurring in autumn; "the autumnal equinox"; "autumnal fruits" [ant: wintry, vernal, summery]

  2. characteristic of late maturity verging on decline; "a serene autumnal mood"

Wikipedia
Autumnal (Buffy comic)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Autumnal is a trade paperback collecting comic stories based on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series.

Autumnal

Autumnal is the seventh full-length album by the Spanish power metal band Dark Moor. The recording of this album was announced in early 2008, with constant updates posted on their website since then.

The title of the album was revealed on November 16, 2008 on Dark Moor's website, along with the cover art and the official track listing. The first single from the album, "On the Hill of Dreams" was posted on their Myspace one month later on December 16, 2008. Towards the end of the year, December 29, it was revealed that Dani Fernandez would no longer be playing with them. The next day, they announced Dark Moor's new bassist would be Mario Garcia. This album also features the voice of Itea Benedicto, a soprano and current lead singer in the Spanish band Niobeth.

A video was shot for the first single was filmed, a process that ended on the 7th of January 2009. The video was made public on the 12th of that same month and year. The video features the band playing in a white room, performing "On the Hill of Dreams".

Usage examples of "autumnal".

An autumnal love gives a man the sober splendor and gentle warmth of a September sunset, but it does not buffet him with the springtime storms of resentment or jealousy.

A mullioned window was pushed open to reveal the autumnal landscape beyond, with the dying sunset beams diffused through it.

It seemed strange to her, seeing its restlessness contrasted so starkly with the autumnal calm that lay elsewhere.

From his right hand sprouted thin branches hung with miniature autumnal leaves.

She proceeded up the river, and never did the scenery on the banks of the beautiful Lee look finer than on that bright autumnal day.

In the summer, however, her majesty made a cruise in her yacht, before retiring to her autumnal Scottish retreat.

On the 14th of September her majesty paid her customary autumnal visit to her Scottish Highland retreat.

Typhon, his brother, slew him when the sun was in the sign of the Scorpion, that is to say, at the Autumnal Equinox.

Thence, through Leo, Virgo, and Libra, he entered SCORPIO at the Autumnal Equinox, and journeyed Southward through Scorpia, Sagittarius, and Capricornus to AQUARIUS, the terminus of his journey South.

And they lamented when, after the Autumnal Equinox, the malign influence of the venomous Scorpion, and vindictive Archer, and the filthy and ill-omened He-Goat dragged him down toward the Winter Solstice.

Some preferred the Autumnal Equinox, because then the harvests were gathered, and the hopes of a new crop were deposited in the bosom of the earth.

Winter Solstice, a young man at the Vernal Equinox, a robust man at the Summer Solstice, and an old man at the Autumnal Equinox.

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.

It was said that he died at the Autumnal Equinox, when Taurus or the Pleiades rose in the evening, and that he rose to life again in the Spring, when vegetation was inspired with new activity.

The Sun, he says, was in the Sign of the Scorpion, which he then entered at the Autumnal Equinox.