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Definition of summer noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

  

summer

 noun
noun
NAmE//ˈsʌmər//
 
 
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  •   [uncountable, countable] the warmest season of the year, coming between spring and fall We're going away in the summer. It's very hot here in summer. in the summer of 2011 late/early summer this/next/last summer a cool/hot/wet summer It is now high summer (= the hottest part of summer). a summer's day a summer dress the summer vacation two summers ago see Indian summer
    • Idioms
    one swallow doesn't make a summer (saying)
     
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    you must not take too seriously a small sign that something is happening or will happen in the future, because the situation could change
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