summertime
[ suhm-er-tahym ]
/ ˈsʌm ərˌtaɪm /
noun
the summer season.
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British Dictionary definitions for summertime
summertime
/ (ˈsʌməˌtaɪm) /
noun
the period or season of summer
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Word Origin and History for summertime
summertime
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Culture definitions for summertime
“Summertime”
One of the best-known songs of George Gershwin; it comes from the opera Porgy and Bess and begins, “Summertime, and the living is easy....”
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