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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
summertime
noun
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▪ Around here, summertime is mapped out weeks and months in advance.
▪ But my native air in the summertime a combination of heat and damp and green-is like air that has already been breathed.
▪ Companies that make candy in the summertime also use the machines.
▪ In summertime trains run as often as every ten minutes taking holiday-makers through to the popular resort.
▪ In the summertime, we had a bus come regularly and we used to take the residents out, just a few.
▪ It details the lazy relaxed summertime pursuits in the small town.
▪ Sometimes you hear her singing, in the summertime.
▪ The lane between Somersby and Harrington is very harrow and, in summertime, shaded by dark green foliage.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
summertime

also summer-time, late 14c., somer tyme, from summer (n.1) + time (n.). Earlier were summertide (mid-13c.), sumeres tid (late Old English). In Britain, as two words, with reference to what in U.S. is daylight saving time, recorded from 1916.

Wiktionary
summertime

n. The period or season of summer.

WordNet
summertime

n. the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox; "they spent a lazy summer at the shore" [syn: summer]

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Summertime may refer to:

Summertime (1955 film)

Summertime (released in the UK as Summer Madness) is a 1955 American/ British Technicolor romance film directed by David Lean. The screenplay by Lean and H. E. Bates is based on the play The Time of the Cuckoo by Arthur Laurents.

Summertime (song)

"Summertime" is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin by ASCAP.

The song soon became a popular and much recorded jazz standard, described as "without doubt ... one of the finest songs the composer ever wrote ... Gershwin's highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of blacks in the southeast United States from the early twentieth century". Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has characterized Heyward's lyrics for "Summertime" and " My Man's Gone Now" as "the best lyrics in the musical theater". The song is recognized as one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded music, with more than 33,000 covers by groups and solo performers.

Summertime (Beyoncé song)

"Summertime" is a song by American singer Beyoncé Knowles featuring American rapper P. Diddy. "Summertime" was written by Knowles, Angela Beyincé, P. Diddy, Steven "Steven J." Jordan, Adonis Shropshire, Varick "Smitty" Smith and Mario Winans, while production was handled by Winans and P. Diddy. The song was later remixed to feature vocals from American rapper Ghostface Killah. "Summertime" was included on the soundtrack album for the film The Fighting Temptations (2003), in which Knowles played the lead female role. The original version of the song was released as a B-side to " Crazy in Love" in the UK and Australia, while it was issued as a 12-inch vinyl single in the United States through Columbia Records.

"Summertime" is an R&B song which lyrically refers to falling in love. Music critics generally complimented Knowles' vocals in the song and noted that it could have been included on her debut studio album, Dangerously in Love (2003). The song also charted on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in late 2003. The original version featuring P. Diddy and the remix version featuring Ghostface Killah peaked at number thirty-five and at number fifty-one respectively on the chart. Both versions charted for forty consecutive weeks. "Summertime" was part of Knowles' set list during the Dangerously in Love Tour (2003), and the Verizon Ladies First Tour (2004).

Summertime (TV programme)

Summertime This drama short (26 minutes) was written by Michael Ennis, directed by Eve Morrison, produced by Hilary McLoughlin and Storm Productions, and jointly financed by RTÉ and the Irish Film Board. It was made in 1995 and broadcast by RTÉ on January 13, 1997.

Two outsiders, Andrew who is gay and Victoria who has recently arrived from London, form a strong friendship in secondary school that helps them both to come to terms with their 'otherness.' Townsend played an eighteen-year-old gay schoolboy, who was being bullied by his classmates.

Filmed in Ireland.

Summertime (DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince song)

"Summertime" is a song by American hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. It was released in May 1991 as the lead single from their fourth studio album, Homebase. The song was produced by Chicago-based producers Hula & K. Fingers and won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 1992 Grammy Awards. It spent a week at number #1 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart, as well as reaching #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also became the duo's first single to enter the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #8.

Summertime (Kenny Chesney song)

"Summertime" is a song written by Craig Wiseman and Steve McEwan, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Chesney. It was released in April 2006 as the third single from Chesney's album The Road and the Radio. The song reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

Summertime (Bon Jovi song)

"Summertime" is a song by Bon Jovi, taken from their 2007 Lost Highway album. This song, unlike their last three singles, features a much heavier guitar part, similar to some older tracks off the Bounce and Crush albums. This single was released only in Canada as the second single from that album.

Summertime (New Kids on the Block song)

"Summertime" is a 2008 single and the first from the New Kids on the Block album titled The Block. The single was released on May 13, 2008 and was the first new single released by the group since 1994.

On May 5, 2008 "Summertime" was posted on the group's MySpace page. The lead vocals were sung by Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight, and Joey McIntyre.

The song's introduction has Joey McIntyre shouting out " Jones Beach! 1988!", referring to their rising popularity in that year.

Summertime (The Maybes? song)

"Summertime" is the third single released by The Maybes? from their debut album, Promise. It was released on 25 August 2008 on Xtra Mile Recordings as a download and 7" Record.

Summertime (Brian Melo song)

"Summertime" is a song written by Greg Johnston and Andy Stochansky, and recorded by Brian Melo for his first album Livin' It (2007). It was released as the album's third single in Canada in 2008.

Summertime (novel)

Summertime is a 2009 novel by South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. It is the third in a series of fictionalized memoirs by Coetzee (the first two being Boyhood and Youth) and details the life of one John Coetzee from the perspective of five people who have known him. The novel largely takes place in the mid to late 1970s, largely in Cape Town, although there are also important scenes in more remote South African settings. While there are obvious similarities between the actual writer of the novel, J. M. Coetzee, and the subject of the novel, John Coetzee, there are some differences - most notably that the John Coetzee of the novel is reported as having died. Within the novel, the opinions and thoughts of the five people are compiled and interpreted by a fictitious biographer, who also adds fragments from John Coetzee's notebooks. It was shortlisted for the 2009 Booker Prize. Coetzee was already a two-time winner of the award and it is for this reason that literary commentator Merritt Moseley believes he did not win it for Summertime.

Summertime (2001 film)

Summertime is a 2001 South Korean film directed by Park Jae-ho and starring Ryu Soo-young and Kim Ji-hyun. A remake of the controversial Philippine film Scorpio Nights (1985), the film was also inspired by the Gwangju massacre.

Summertime (MFSB album)

Summertime is the fifth album to be released by Philadelphia International Records houseband MFSB.

Summertime (Selah Sue song)

"Summertime" is a song performed by Belgian musician and songwriter Selah Sue from her self-titled debut album Selah Sue. It was released on the 4 November 2011 as a Digital download in Belgium. The song was written by Sanne Putseys and produced by Patrice.

Summertime (Paul Desmond album)

Summertime is an album by American jazz saxophonist Paul Desmond featuring performances recorded in 1968 and released on the CTI label.

Summertime (2015 film)

Summertime (original title: La Belle Saison) is a 2015 French-Belgian romantic drama film directed by Catherine Corsini, co-written with Laurette Polmanss. The film stars Cécile de France, Izïa Higelin and Noémie Lvovsky. It premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival, where it won the Variety Piazza Grande Award.

Usage examples of "summertime".

In the summertime, to pay his college expenses, Barnett rode buses and trains through Alabama and Mississippi as a door-to-door salesman for Wearever aluminum products, dragging a pair of huge sample cases that held seventy-two pounds of cooking utensils, pots, and pans.

Blair Hardware was personally responsible for the beauty and fertility of Meadowbrook in the summertime.

Sara in her Best Buddies and Class Motormouth photos, taken when she was still summertime skinny.

When you entered the hallowed landscaping of Nob Hill, life slowed down and became mellow, mosquitoes disappeared, temperatures in summertime were reduced by at least ten degrees, the sidewalks had no cracks, the streets were freshly paved, all lawns sported a uniform cut according to the covenants, and not a single dandelion marred the greensward thanks to the massive applications of Life Erase, the latest domestic herbicide to toxify our exhausted planet.

These ailments are most common in summertime and may be caused by sudden changes of diet, unaccustomed foods, chills in the stomach following bodily overheating, exposure to hot sunshine etc.

The Independent System Operator, the California agency that oversees the transmission of electricity, has access to about 45,000 megawatts of power--the amount needed for summertime peak demand.

As a summertime male visitor, unsponsored by any clan, my position in Caria has been ambiguous.

But it was fine if you kept alert, an' there was flowers and burdies and summertime.

The remaining gardening equipment would go to the renters of the neighboring plots who in the summertime had relaxed with her father after a long day's work in their gardens and drank kvass, the beerlike beverage made from fermented black bread.

It was Freddy Cannon, that bebop summertime avatar of Savin Rock: 'She's dancin to the drag, the cha-cha rag-a-mop, she's stompin to the shag, rocks the bunny hop .

For an instant, as she went by him, his psyche brushed hers, and he felt a dark current, swirling, a cold spot, deep and dark, in a corner of a children's summertime swimming hole.

He was so shook up that he hit the road, and for some reason that road aimed due north five hundred miles, leading up out of flat plains and the desert country into high mountain's, and--maybe a year after the death of his family--to a job at the Dancing Trout Dude Ranch, guiding tourists on horseback through the summertime Midnight Mountains.

Aroused fems were seldom dangerous, and it was doubtful the poor fellow got much notice during summertime.

I am wondering if maybe my ham radio friend the Condor might be living there during the summertime.

Pearly clouds wreathed some mountaintops, hinting at the afternoon and evening storms that flashed through the Rockies in summertime.