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{
"term": "summer",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "the warmest season of the year, coming between spring and autumn",
"sensetop": "in the summerin summerduring the summerover the summerthroughout the summer",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We're going away in the summer.",
"contextForm": "in the summer"
},
{
"text": "in the summer of 2019"
},
{
"text": "**this/next/last summer**"
},
{
"text": "two summers ago"
},
{
"text": "It's very hot here in summer.",
"contextForm": "in summer"
},
{
"text": "late/early summer"
},
{
"text": "It is now **high summer** *(= the hottest part of summer)*."
},
{
"text": "during the long **hot summer**",
"contextForm": "during the summer"
},
{
"text": "a cool/wet summer"
},
{
"text": "I managed to get six weeks' work over the summer.",
"contextForm": "over the summer"
},
{
"text": "Sales will take place throughout the **spring and summer**.",
"contextForm": "throughout the summer"
},
{
"text": "a summer’s day"
},
{
"text": "She was wearing a light summer dress."
},
{
"text": "The house is now open to the public during the **summer months**."
},
{
"text": "the **summer holidays/vacation/break**"
},
{
"text": "We're at the height of **summer** travel **season**."
},
{
"text": "Are you looking for a summer job?"
},
{
"text": "Seville is scorching in high summer."
},
{
"text": "There are two new courses being run in the summer term."
},
{
"text": "Insect populations reach high levels during the summer."
}
],
"topics": ["Time"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["last", "this past", "the following"],
"summer + noun": ["heat", "temperature", "weather"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "you must not take too seriously a small sign that something is happening or will happen in the future, because the situation could change",
"labels": "(saying)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsʌmə(r)/",
"audio": "su/summer/summer__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsʌmər/",
"audio": "su/summer/summer__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English sumor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zomer, German Sommer, also to Sanskrit samā ‘year’."
}