summer

sum|mer [ `sʌmər ] noun count or uncount ***

1. ) the season between spring and fall, when the weather is hottest:

He spent the summer in Paris.

the summer of 1973

in summer: This room is cold even in summer.

early/late summer: The fruit will ripen in late summer.

a ) relating to summer:

a warm summer evening

our summer vacation

The museum is open to visitors in the summer months.

b ) high summer or the height of summer the hottest part of the summer

2. ) LITERARY a year, especially of someone's age:

a man of some fifty summers