Dictionary

autumn en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (no-gloss) [no gloss]

Antonyms

spring

Holonyms

year

Hypernyms

season

Meronyms

aftersummer · Indian summer · fall equinox · hunter's moon · St. Luke's summer · St. Martin's summer · autumnal equinox · harvest moon

Synonyms

autumn · fall · Autumn · autumntime · harvest · back end

autumn en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɔtəm/ (General-American)
• (UK) audio
• [ˈɑɾɪ̈m] (cot-caught-merger)
• /ˈɔːtəm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (US) audio cot-caught
• [ˈɔɾɪ̈m] (General-American)
• (General-American) audio
• ôʹtəm
• [ˈɑɾm̩] (cot-caught-merger)
• [ˈɔɾm̩] (General-American)
• /ˈɑtəm/ (cot-caught-merger)
• (US) audio non-cot-caught

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English autumpne, from Middle French automne, from Old French automne, autonne, from Latin autumnus. Some of the verbal senses are from Latin autumnāre.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves, and temperatures and daylight hours decrease; typically regarded as spanning the months of September, October, and November in the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere.
   • The Spring, the Sommer, / The childing Autumne, angry Winter change / Their wonted Liueries, […] c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 149, column 1:
   • I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom / I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not've got 'em 2000, “Stan”, in The Marshall Mathers LP, performed by Eminem:
   • In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
   • autumn leaves
   • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers. 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
2. (broadly, countable, uncountable) The time period when someone or something is past its prime.
   • It has been portrayed as the well-intended yet wrongly directed reaction to latter-day scholasticism, or as the harvest of medieval theology in its autumn years, as a revolution that is theological, political, economic, cultural—or all of the above. 2014, Robert Kolb, Irene Dingel, Lubomír Batka, The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's Theology, →ISBN:
   • She has beauty still, and if it be not in its heyday, it is not yet in its autumn. 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House:
   • Unlike the decline of British hegemony, in the current world-system no military or economic contender has emerged to replace US hegemony. Even though the US SCA has entered its autumn with the Vietname War and the economic crisis of the mid-1970s, there has been no legitimate hegemonic contender capable of instituting a new global regime to resolve both social and economic contradictions of global capitalism. 2014, Berch Berberoglu, The Global Capitalist Crisis and Its Aftermath, →ISBN:
   • The autumn of life is also a matter of saying farewell, but the strange thing is that I do not feel it is autumn. 2014, May Sarton, At Seventy: A Journal, →ISBN:
3. (countable, uncountable) A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.

Forms

Deriveds

autumn-time · German Autumn · autumn foliage · autumn fever · Autumn Harvest Uprising · autumn meadowhawk · Hot Autumn · autumn fern · autumn term · autumn crocus · autumn snowflake · autumn romance · autumn break · autumn Adonis · autumn colours · autumn skullcap · autumn pumpkin · autumn olive · autumn rustic · autumn equinox · autumntime · autumntide · Autumn Glory · autumn fly · autumnise · autumn-spring · autumn years · autumn willow · autumn lady's tresses · autumnize · autumnish · autumn sneezeweed · autumn colors · autumnful · autumn sage · autumn leaf · autumny · mid-autumn · autumn bells · autumnwear · Autumnfest · autumn ice

Relateds

Neotrombicula autumnalis · Leptus autumnalis · Leontodon autumnale · Scilla autumnalis · Lacus Autumni · Musca autumnalis · Leptospira autumnalis · Coregonus autumnalis · Colchichum autumnale · autumnian · Helenium autumnale · Leontodon autumnalis · autumnal · autumnity · autumnal equinox · Galerina autumnalis · Trombicula autumnalis · Plegadis autumnalis · Epirrita autumnata · Adonis autumnalis · Dendrocygna autumnalis · Coregonus autumnalis migratorius

Synonyms

fall · harvest · back end · decline

Translations (344)

ta இலையுதிர்காலம் (season) · mtm ӧрӧх (season) · ota گوز (season) · vot süčüzü (season) · ko 추계 (season) · th หน้าใบไม้ร่วง (season) · cs podzim (season) · ja 秋 (season) · nn haust (season) · rap toŋa 'iti (season) · pt outono (season) · gug ro'yñepyrũ (season) · tkl tau kua kāmata mālūlū (season) · ml ശരത്കാലം (season) · vo fluküp (season) · sva მუჟღვერ (season) · ulc боло (season) · av хасалихълъи (season) · tr sonbahar (season) · sa शरद (season) · udm сӥзьыл (season) · mn намар (season) · kmr payiz (season) · it autunno (season) · eve болани (season) · sc atonzu (season) · ab ҭагалан (season) · ur خَرِیف (season) · zh 秋季 (season) · ka შემოდგომა (season) · sc attonzu (season) · nv aakʼee (season) · kpv ар (season) · pa ਖਿਜਾਂ (season) · ang hærfest (season) · smn čohčâ (season) · sdn ottugnu (season) · tg поиз (season) · hy աշուն (season) · de Herbstzeit (season) · yi אָסיען (season) · io autono (season) · mrj шӹжӹ (season) · yo ìgbà fọ́ọ̀lù (season) · osa 𐓱𐓘̄͘𐓰𐓘́͘ (htą̄tą́) (season) · eo aŭtuno (season) · vec otuno (season) · prg assanis (season) · my ဆောင်းဦး (season) · mnc ᠪᠣᠯᠣᡵᡳ (season) · wo lolli (season) · mk есен (season) · tl taglagas (season) · fur Sierade (season) · fur sorunviêr (season) · sc atongiu (season) · nds Harvst (season) · zh 秋天 (season) · ia autumno (season) · ps خزان (season) · osa 𐓱𐓘͘ (htą) (season) · ady бжыхьэ (season) · ti ቀውዒ (season) · mel musim laraih (season) · tr güz (season) · rm atun (season) · an sanmigalada (season) · wuu 秋天 (season) · fy hjerst (season) · lo ລະດູໃບໄມ້ຫລົ່ນ (season) · vec auton (season) · yrk-for мыԓичу (season) · vi thu (season) · za seizcou (season) · gug araroguekúi (season) · yo ìgbà ìkórè (season) · grc φθινόπωρον (season) · ast seronda (season) · krc къач (season) · frr Hārefst (season) · lt ruduo (season) · ar خريف (season) · bn হেমন্ত (season) · ab хкаарачан (season) · az payız (season) · mhn herbest (season) · dsb nazyma (season) · hi पाईज़ (season) · ar خَرِيف (season) · zh 秋天 (season) · eu udazken (season) · fa پائیز (season) · kn ಶರತ್ಕಾಲ (season) · nl herfst (season) · fi syksy (season) · scn autunnu (season) · fur Sorunviêr (season) · fr automne (season) · mi ngahuru (season) · sw vuli (season) · ar خريف (season) · os фӕззӕг (season) · tg тирамоҳ (season) · ett 𐌀𐌕𐌖𐌍𐌄 (season) · kw kynnyav (season) · bua намар (season) · lsd גׄירי (season) · olo sygyzy (season) · orv осень (season) · zu ikwindla (season) · dlm autun (season) · yo ìgbà ìwọ́wé (season) · pam kalugus (season) · am በልግ (season) · oc tardor (season) · tt көз (season) · hak 秋季 (season) · fur Autun (season) · ms musim luruh (season) · es otoño (season) · gl outono (season) · tr hazan (season) · an aborral (season) · lou lotònn (season) · yo ìgbà ọ́tọ́ọ̀mù (season) · cv кӗркунне (season) · et sügis (season) · enf отуз (season) · da høst (season) · oc auton (season) · tab чвул (season) · mnp 秋天 (season) · th ใบไม้ร่วง (season) · sh jȅsēn (season) · xal намр (season) · ilo duppo (season) · fur autun (season) · ar خريف (season) · kjh кӱскӱ (season) · ckb پاییز (season) · vi mùa thu (season) · sco hairst (season) · om birraa (season) · rup toamnã (season) · lbe ссут (season) · win cąąnį (season) · nrf autaomme (season) · cy hydref (season) · ps خمسور (season) · el φθινόπωρο (season) · bcl tagtarataan (season) · sjd че̄ххч (season) · ext toñá (season) · xsv asenis (season) · te ఆకురాలుకాలం (season) · tk güýz (season) · ms musim gugur (season) · tly poz (season) · grc ὀπώρα (season) · sdc attugnu (season) · krl sygyzy (season) · sk jeseň (season) · is haust (season) · hrx Herrebst (season) · lv rudens (season) · zh чютян (season) · evn болони (season) · jje ᄀᆞ을 (season) · ga fómhar (season) · pdt Hoafst (season) · wym hiewyst (season) · lo ລະດູໃບໄມ້ຫຼົ່ນ (season) · jje ᄀᆞ슬 (season) · myv сёксь (season) · yrk-tun ӈэ̇рё (season) · ckb خەزان (season) · te శరత్కాలం (season) · as শৰৎ (season) · ne शरद (season) · si සරත් ඍතුව (season) · kl ukiaq (season) · he סתיו (season) · mdf сёксе (season) · ru о́сень (season) · ja 秋季 (season) · ltg rudiņs (season) · sdn vaggjmu (season) · nl najaar (season) · hi ख़िज़ाँ (season) · sjt чаккч (season) · ca tardor (season) · lb Hierscht (season) · yi האַרבסט (season) · kla sʔaLam (season) · bg е́сен (season) · be ўво́сень (season) · uk о́сінь (season) · fo heyst (season) · dlg күһүн (season) · ur پَت جَھڑ (season) · pa ਪਤਝੜ (season) · be во́сень (season) · sv höst (season) · as শৰৎকাল (season) · ks ہَرُد (season) · gld боло (season) · fur Atom (season) · gu પાનખર (season) · pl jesień (season) · ky күз (season) · bn শরৎ (season) · vec utuno (season) · fur atom (season) · lez зул (season) · fa پاییز (season) · rue о́синь (season) · ur خِزاں (season) · ttt pariz (season) · yue 秋天 (season) · mns-nor таквс (season) · izh syksy (season) · az güz (season) · sd سرء (season) · ce гуьйре (season) · sh је̏се̄н (season) · nrf S'tembre (season) · sro attonzu (season) · aii ܬܸܫܪ̈ܝܹܐ (season) · th ฤดูใบไม้ร่วง (season) · sc atognu (season) · sd خزان (season) · kbd бжьыхьэ (season) · so dayr (season) · xas ере (season) · ruq toamnă (season) · nv aakʼeed (season) · niv тилф (season) · ko 가을 (season) · inh гуйра (season) · zza hazan (season) · af herfs (season) · tli yeis (season) · sw majira ya pukutiko (season) · uz kuz (season) · zu ukwindla (season) · abq дзны (season) · rsk єшень (season) · fa خَزان (season) · stq Häärst (season) · lij aotùnno (season) · enm hervest (season) · zkb ире (season) · cu ѥсень (season) · tzm ⴰⵎⵡⴰⵏ (season) · ryu 秋 (season) · moe takuatshin (season) · sel-sou ара́т (season) · esu uksuaq (season) · kk күз (season) · dsb nazymje (season) · ro toamnă (season) · lou otònn (season) · ovd ost (season) · ttt поризэ (season) · pox jisin (season) · sw kipindi cha bubujiko (season) · chr ᎤᎶᎪᎰᏍᏗ (season) · ur پائِیز (season) · sel-sou ера́д (season) · ps پاڼي رژون (season) · gd foghar (season) · dar гӏебшни (season) · xmf დამორჩილი (season) · br diskar-amzer (season) · nb høst (season) · mhr шыже (season) · yue 秋季 (season) · id musim gugur (season) · hu ősz (season) · sd خريف (season) · cjs кӱскӱ (season) · kl ukiaĸ (season) · da efterår (season) · hi शरद् (season) · bo སྟོན་ཀ (season) · tay hawqan abaw (season) · rgn autôn (season) · kix ôchàmjū (season) · sco back-end (season) · ur خَزاں (season) · tyv күс (season) · frp ôton (season) · crh küz (season) · fur sierade (season) · ovd lovbliku (season) · zza payız (diq) (season) · ba көҙ (season) · nds Harvsttiet (season) · lo ລຶດູໃບໄມ້ຫລົ່ນ (season) · kum гюз (season) · de Herbst (season) · la autumnus (season) · ps پاڼ رېژ (season) · es otoñada (season) · nrf erchéyant (season) · okm ᄀᆞᅀᆞᆶ (season) · ota صوڭ بهار (season) · mww caij mplooj zeeg (season) · mr शरद (season) · nrf arryire (season) · mn ᠨᠠᠮᠤᠷ (season) · sms čõhčč (season) · be уво́сень (season) · sq britëm (season) · dta namur (season) · kxd musim luruh (season) · ps منى (season) · am መፀው (season) · fa خَریف (season) · za cou (season) · csb jeséń (season) · hi पतझड़ (season) · mt ħarifa (season) · nio ӈитүо (season) · se čakča (season) · ext otoñu (season) · ug كۈز (season) · sdn attugnu (season) · krc кюз (season) · oko 秋察 (season) · pa پت جھڑ (season) · nio ӈитү (season) · sq vjeshtë (season) · mg fararano (season) · ur سَرَد (season) · sel-nor ара (season) · ja 秋期 (season) · rm utuon (season) · sl jesén (season) · hsb nazyma (season) · km សរទៈ (season) · an agüerro (season) · sah күһүн (season) · he סְתָו (season)

wikidata: Q1314

autumn en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈɔtəm/ (General-American)
• (UK) audio
• [ˈɑɾɪ̈m] (cot-caught-merger)
• /ˈɔːtəm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (US) audio cot-caught
• [ˈɔɾɪ̈m] (General-American)
• (General-American) audio
• ôʹtəm
• [ˈɑɾm̩] (cot-caught-merger)
• [ˈɔɾm̩] (General-American)
• /ˈɑtəm/ (cot-caught-merger)
• (US) audio non-cot-caught

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English autumpne, from Middle French automne, from Old French automne, autonne, from Latin autumnus. Some of the verbal senses are from Latin autumnāre.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To spend the autumn (in a particular place).
   • True it is that, owing to the migratory propensities of our countrymen, every third man has wintered at Naples, springed at Vienna, summered in Switzerland, and autumned on the banks of the Lago Maggiore; 1835 May, “Northern Germany. A Sketch.”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XI, number LXV, page 507:
   • They wintered in a warm place / And summered in a cold, / But where they springed and autumned / I never have been told. 1937, Mortimer Jones, “Lines of No Importance”, in The Alphi Phi Quarterly, page 29:
   • Larry and Bill had planned to hold a white-linen “fancy” fund-raiser dinner in late June or early July, which would bring out the moneyed crowd who “summered” on the Island. If you summer or winter somewhere you are affluent, Larry knew. (Funny, though, he had never heard of anyone who “autumned” in Vermont or who was “springing” in Colorado.) 2010, Larry Stettner, Bill Morrison, Cooking for the Common Good: The Birth of a Natural Foods Soup Kitchen, Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 84:
   • The major’s office, young pudgy Major Lewis whose wife once offered Joe a bag of peanuts and who summered in New England and early-autumned in New York. 1944, O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories, page 111:
   • She springed in London, summered in Stockholm, autumned at Vichy, and wintered at Monte Carlo. 1950, Chambers’s Journal, page 269:
   • I have summered and autumned (fallen?) on the North Fork for forty-two years. 1980, Alistair Cooke, The Americans: Letters from America on Our Life and Times, 1969-79, →ISBN, page 264:
   • In recent years his friend the fourth-quarter king summered, autumned, and springed in nearby Southern California, which was how they stayed so easily in touch. 2006, Tim Pratt, “The Third-Quarter King”, in Jonathan Strahan, Jeremy G Byrne, editors, Eidolon I, →ISBN, page 2:
   • So when she summered with her family in the Mediterranean, she sailed across the ocean from New York, and when she autumned in Maine, her chauffeur drove her ten hours north through the foliage, and when winter thawed and it was time again for spring training, she met her Mets in Florida after a long journey down the coast by train. 2021, Devin Gordon, So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets—the Best Worst Team in Sports, Harper, →ISBN:
   • If Tad’s father and Tad had wintered, springed, summered, and autumned together for an hundred years instead of fifteen they could[…] 1912, William C[yrus] Sprague, Tad, the Story of a Boy who Had No Chance, page 2:
   • Floyd Waggaman, the namesake of “Floyd’s Folly,” summered and autumned at Siasconset, which your columnist has been told is hard by Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, or one of the disenchanted isles. 1938 November 18, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume XXXIX, number 8, page 180:
2. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) undergo the changes associated with autumn, such as leaves changing color and falling from trees.
   • […]three quarters, two thirds of the flowering tops have changed colour and these are very resinous, solid buds and the colouration of the leaf, you can see how it’s yellowed off, it’s autumning, autumn has come if you would like to put it that way. 2008, Jeffrey Winterborne, Medical Marijuana / Cannabis Cultivation: Trees of Life at the University of London, Pukka Press, →ISBN, pages 249–250:
   • […]he himself roamed with innocent Kate through the fast autumning woods[…] 1887, Virginia Sandars, “The Duke of Melton”, in London Society, volume LII, London: F. V. White & Co., page 185:
   • The glistening path where weeds had clung, / And tumbled bushes lay, / Was hidden now, but yet there rung / Tones of an autumned May.[…]And cheers rang out, the song and shout, / For the fray had found its eve, / And pirate chief like autumned leaf, / O’er fallen pride did grieve!” 1886, Horace Eaton Walker, The Lady of Dardale and Other Poems, Manchester, N.H.: Browne & Rowe, pages 139 and 201:
   • Spirit of Autumn, When I grow tired of using my gifts to benefit others, take me to the autumned fields where earth freely yields the bounty of her summer.[…]All night a steady rain fell upon the autumned earth, moistening every dried crack of the bony summer, rinsing what lay tattered and soiled in the remnants of yesterday. 2018, Joyce Rupp, Anchors for the Soul: Daily Wisdom for Inspiration and Guidance, Notre Dame, Ind.: Sorin Books, →ISBN, pages 8 and 9:
   • She turns off towards the river, where the lawns lie autumned on the banks between the frayed golden willow branches. 2003, Antjie Krog, A Change of Tongue, →ISBN, page 98:

Forms

Relateds

Indian summer