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| win·ter [ wíntər ] |
noun (plural win·ters) |
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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
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2. closing period or period of inactivity: a period in which something is declining, inactive, or ending
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3. year: one of a number of years, especially a great number
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literary
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  a man of many winters
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verb (past and past participle win·tered, present participle win·ter·ing, 3rd person present singular win·ters) |
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1. intransitive verb spend winter somewhere: to spend the winter in a particular place, especially away from home
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2. transitive verb keep something somewhere in winter: to keep something, especially farm animals, in a particular place during the winter
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| [ Old English, < Indo-European, "wet"] |
