autumn
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Is autumn a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (by extension) The time period when someone or something is past its prime.Examples: "She has beauty still, and if it be not in its heyday, it is not yet in its autumn."; "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."; "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."Synonyms: declinebroadlycountableuncountable
2. (fashion) A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To spend the autumn (in a particular place).Examples: "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;"; "If Tad’s father and Tad had wintered, springed, summered, and autumned together for an hundred years instead of fifteen they could[…]"; "They wintered in a warm place / And summered in a cold, / But where they springed and autumned / I never have been told."intransitive
2. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) undergo the changes associated with autumn, such as leaves changing color and falling from trees.Examples: "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!”"; "[…]he himself roamed with innocent Kate through the fast autumning woods[…]"; "She turns off towards the river, where the lawns lie autumned on the banks between the frayed golden willow branches."ambitransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary