noun, verb
noun [U,C] the coldest season of the year, between autumn/fall and spring:
a mild / severe / hard winter * Our house can be very cold in (the) winter. * They worked on the building all through the winter. * We went to New Zealand last winter. * the winter months * a winter coat
IDIOMS see DEADn.
verb [V] [usually +adv./prep.] to spend the winter somewhere:
Many British birds winter in Africa. * Increasing numbers of retired people are wintering abroad.
compareOVERWINTER
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for winter is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does winter appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — winter appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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