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Winter

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English

Pronunciation

'win-ter /wInt@/

Noun

winter (winters )

  1. Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as being from December 21 to March 20 in Northern Hemisphere regions and from June 21 to September 20 in Southern Hemisphere regions. Usually marked by the applicable hemisphere of the planet being at its minimum angle of exposure to the Sun resulting in short days and the typically the time period with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region.

Antonyms

Related words

  • fimbulwinter
  • midwinter
  • wintery
  • atomic winter

Translations

  • Albanian: dinër
  • Basque: negu
  • Bosnian: zima f
  • Breton: goañv m -où
  • Catalan: hivern m
  • Croatian: zima
  • Czech: zima
  • Danish: vinter
  • Dutch: winter m (on this page)
  • Esperanto: vintro
  • Estonian: talv
  • Finnish: talvi
  • French: hiver m
  • Frisian: winter (on this page)
  • German: Winter m (on this page)
  • Hebrew: חורף (KHO-ref)
  • Hungarian: tél
  • Icelandic: vetur
  • Indonesian: musim dingin
  • Interlingua: hiberno
  • Italian: inverno m
  • Irish: Geimhreadh
  • Japanese: (ふゆ , fuyu)
  • Korean: 겨울 (gyeo-ul)
  • Kurdish: zivistan, zistan
  • Latin: hiems f
  • Lithuanian: žiema f
  • Manchu: tuweri
  • Māori: takurua
  • Norwegian: vinter
  • Persian: زِمِستان (zemestān)
  • Polish: zima
  • Portuguese: inverno
  • Romanian: iarna
  • Russian: зима
  • Slovene: zima f
  • Spanish: invierno m
  • Swedish: vinter c
  • Turkish: kış
  • Welsh: Gaeaf
  • Yiddish: װינטער (VIN-ter)

Dutch

Noun

winter m (plural -s /-s/)

'win-ter /wInt@R/

  1. winter

German

Noun

Winter m

  1. winter



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