AUTUMN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does autumn mean? 

• AUTUMN (noun)
  The noun AUTUMN has 1 sense:

1. the season when the leaves fall from the trees

  Familiarity information: AUTUMN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTUMN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The season when the leaves fall from the trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

autumn; fall

Context example:

in the fall of 1973

Hypernyms ("autumn" is a kind of...):

season; time of year (one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions)

Meronyms (parts of "autumn"):

Indian summer; Saint Martin's summer (a period of unusually warm weather in the autumn)

autumnal equinox; fall equinox; September equinox (September 22)

Derivation:

autumnal (of or characteristic of or occurring in autumn)

 Context examples 

I landed in London on a wintry autumn evening.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Lucy is to be married in the autumn, and she is already planning out her dresses and how her house is to be arranged.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Is this what made you so unhappy in the autumn, Beth?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was late in autumn when I quitted the district where I had so long resided.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In the yellow shimmer of the autumn sunshine it lay as peacefully and as still as he had oft pictured it to himself in his dreams.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Using the clues contained within the ice cores, the researchers found that the eruption began around the spring of 939 and continued at least through the autumn of 940.

(Volcanic eruption influenced Iceland’s conversion to Christianity, University of Cambridge)

Because snow and ice reflect more light than vegetation or water, the spring is brighter than the summer or autumn, when there is much less snow and ice.

(Earthshine, NASA)

The autumn of that year was a stormy one, and there was a long succession of southerly gales.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘Why, now that you mention it,’ said he, ‘I remember that my poor father used to have an invitation from him to shoot over his preserves every autumn.’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)