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Adjective
/ˈwintər/,
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winters, plural;
  1. (of fruit and vegetables) Ripening late in the growing season and suitable for storage over the winter
    • - a winter apple
  2. (of wheat or other crops) Sown in autumn for harvesting the following year

Verb
  1. (esp. of a bird) Spend the winter in a particular place
    • - birds wintering in the Channel
  2. Keep or feed (plants or cattle) during winter

Noun
  1. The coldest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from December to February and in the southern hemisphere from June to August
    • - the tree has a good crop of berries in winter
    • - the winter months
  2. The period from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox

  3. Years
    • - he seemed a hundred winters old
  1. the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox
  2. spend the winter; "We wintered on the Riviera"; "Shackleton's men overwintered on Elephant Island"
  3. Winter is the coldest season of the year, between autumn and spring, marked by the shortest days and longest nights.
  4. "Winter" is the first (and only) single released by the crust punk band Amebix. It was released in 1983 on Spiderleg Records, with "Beginning of the End" as the B-side.
  5. Winter was an American death metal band from New York. They are considered a pioneer in the death/doom subgenre.
  6. Winter is a fictional character who is published by Wildstorm Productions. He first appeared in Stormwatch (Vol.1) #1.
  7. The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. Composed in 1723, The Four Seasons is Vivaldi's best-known work, and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music. The texture of each concerto is varied, each resembling its respective season. ...
  8. The 1913 Winter egg is one of a series of fifty-two Russian jeweled Easter eggs and was designed by Alma Pihl, the designer who worked for Russian jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé in 1913 for Tsar Nicholas II as an Easter gift for the Tzar's mother, Tsaritsa Maria Fyodorovna. The egg sold for US$9. ...
  9. Winter is a Malayalam film starring Jayaram, Bhavana released in the year 2009. It was directed by Dipu Karunakaran and produced by K. Radhakrishnan. The music is scored by Raj Krishnan.
  10. Winter were an Irish progressive rock band who received much critical acclaim for their live performances in the 1980s and 1990s, combining fine musicianship, based around creating hard rock, multi-layered melodies, with Johnny Lennie's flamboyant stage presence and lyricism and for their debut ...
  11. Winter is the second EP released by Jon Foreman, frontman of the San Diego rock band Switchfoot. The EP was released on Tuesday, January 15, 2008, as either a digital download or as a physical copy packaged with the Fall EP in a double-disc set.
  12. Winter is a 2000 novel by John Marsden (Pan Macmillan, ISBN 0330362704).
  13. Downtown Crossing Station of the MBTA, located at the corner of Washington Street and Summer Street and the corner of Chauncey Street and Summer Street in Boston, is the main transfer point between the Orange Line and the Red Line. ...
  14. Winter is a 1987 novel by Len Deighton.
  15. Winter is a popular song of Ruslana (winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004).
  16. Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as being from December 21 to March 20 in continental regions of the Northern Hemisphere or the months of June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere. ...
  17. A common Germanic surname
  18. (Winters (syn, M20222, Southland)) Origin Miami, USDA, 1959. Seedling of Ono, Philippine type, polyembryonic. Tree broad, production variable. Fruit medium, to 14 oz., smaller in desert, shape half-round, yellow blushed red. Subject to anthracnose, resists soft nose. ...
  19. To dream of winter, is a prognostication of ill-health and dreary prospects for the favorable progress of fortune. After this dream your efforts will not yield satisfactory results.
  20. With regard to Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, period from October through mid-March when the birds are in Mexico or Central America. See also summer.
  21. I know, I know. You’re thinking: “Winter? We get winter too! They’re just like us!” The fuck you do. We. Get. Winter. Not this bullshit +2 Fahrenheit crap. We get boneshattering, ball busting, make you asshole heal shut COLD like most of you would never quite understand. ...
  22. occurring between January and March. The year's coldest months are December and January, when temperatures average around 10–15 °C (50–59 °F) in the northwest; temperatures rise as one proceeds towards the equator, peaking around 20–25 °C (68–77 °F) in mainland India's southeast.
  23. Winters are quite cool. However, it may sometimes gets chilly. Average temperature in winters (November to February) remains at (max) 7°C to 15 °C and (min) 0°C to 5°C.
  24. Introversion, inactivity, old age, the end of a cycle / Resting, recuperating, hibernating; withdrawing from the outside world
  25. (October-Fabruary): Cold (temperatures drop to 3-4ºC, sometimes below -1ºC); clear skies; foggy conditions in some tracts.