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winter

win·ter [ wíntər ]


noun  (plural win·ters)
Definition:
 
1. year's coldest season: the coldest season of the year, which runs in the northern hemisphere from around November or December to February or March and in the southern hemisphere from June to August

2. closing period or period of inactivity: a period in which something is declining, inactive, or ending

3. year: one of a number of years, especially a great number ( literary )
a man of many winters



verb  (past and past participle win·tered, present participle win·ter·ing, 3rd person present singular win·ters)
Definition:
 
1. intransitive verb spend winter somewhere: to spend the winter in a particular place, especially away from home

2. transitive verb keep something somewhere in winter: to keep something, especially farm animals, in a particular place during the winter

[ Old English, < Indo-European, "wet"]
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