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Definition: Summertime |
SummertimeNoun1. The warmest season of the year; "they spent a lazy summer at the shore". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "summertime" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
Synonym: SummertimeSynonym: summer (n). (additional references) |
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The movie was adapted by H.E. Bates, David Lean and Donald Ogden Stewart (uncredited) from the play The Time of the Cuckoo by Arthur Laurents. It was directed by Lean.
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Katharine Hepburn) and Best Director.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Summertime."
Crosswords: Summertime |
| English words defined with "summertime": water waggon, water wagon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "summertime": HEAT STORM. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's summertime. (Cedric the Entertainer Presents; writing credit: Charles Peattie; Mark Warren) | |
Lyrics | And it was summertime (Night Moves; performing artist: BOB SEGER; writing credit: Bob Seger) But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues ("Summertime Blues"; performing artist: Eddie Cochran) In the summertime we didn't have shoes to wear (Coal Miner's Daughter; performing artist: Loretta Lynn) I'll give you good lovin' through the summertime, (Real Love; performing artist: Mary J. Blige) The summertime skirts and the guys in Kani (This Is How We Do It; performing artist: Montell Jordan) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Summertime U.S.A. (1953) In the Good Old Summertime (1949) Summertime (1935) In the Good Old Summertime (1930) Summertime (1929) | |
Song Titles | SUMMERTIME SUMMERTIME (performing artist: Jamies ) In The Summertime (performing artist: Mungo Jerry) Hot Fun in the Summertime (performing artist: Sly and the Family Stone) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Summertime landing along the sandy beach. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | In the good old summertime. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | LAC encephalitis initially presents as a nonspecific summertime illness with fever, headache, nausea, vomiting and lethargy. (references) | |
Business | Finnair, the national carrier, offers daily non-stop flights to JFK/New York in the summertime and six flights a week during winter. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Johnny Cash | You know, I wrote a song about why I wear black but maybe that's not quite it. I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Summertime" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.56% of the time. "Summertime" is used about 90 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.56% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 90 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "summertime": summertime period. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "summertime"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | orë e verës (summer time). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | лято (grass, summer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 夏令时. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | léto (summer, summer time). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | perioden med sommertid (summertime period). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zomertijd (summer time, summertime period). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kesäkausi (summer season). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | été (summer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sommerzeit (daylight saving time, summer time, summertide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | περίοδος θερινής ώρας (summertime period). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyáridő, nyár (poplar, summer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | estate (summer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 夏時 , 夏 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | なつば, なつどき, かじ (blacksmith, Chinese character, conflagration, domestic chores, faith-healing, fire, helm, housework, incantation, rudder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 서머 타임. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | traa noa, sourey (summer), raiee yn touree. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ummertimesay verão (summer). (various references) летнее время (daylight saving time, daylight savings time, daylight-saving time, daylight-savings time, summer time, summer-time). (various references) letnje vreme (summer time). (various references) verano (summer). (various references) sommartid (daylight saving time). (various references) ฤ"ูร้อน (hot season, summer). (various references) yaz zamanı, yaz (aestival, summer). (various references) літо (summer), літній сезон. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "summertime": summertimes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "summertime" (pronounced su"mertī'm) |
| 4 | -er t ī' m | dinnertime, overtime, wintertime. |
| 3 | -t ī' m | airtime, anytime, bedtime, centime, daytime, downtime, flextime, halftime, lifetime, longtime, lunchtime, maritime, mealtime, meantime, nighttime, noontime, pastime, peacetime, ragtime, schooltime, showtime, sometime, springtime, wartime. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-m-m-m-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: mummeries, summiteer. | |
-2 letters: emeritus, meristem, rummiest, semimute, stemmier. | |
-3 letters: immerse, immures, metiers, mismeet, misterm, mummers, mummies, mustier, reemits, retimes, rummest, rummies, stemmer, triseme, tummies. | |
-4 letters: emmers, emmets, estrum, immure, iterum, merest, merits, meters, metier, metres, mimers, mismet, mister, miters, mitres, mummer, mustee, muster, mutism, reemit, remise, remits, resite, resume, retems, reties, retime, retuse, simmer. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-m-m-m-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: immurements, summertimes. | |
+4 letters: mismeasurement. | |
+5 letters: mismeasurements. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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