DOG DAYS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dog days mean? 

• DOG DAYS (noun)
  The noun DOG DAYS has 1 sense:

1. the hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity

  Familiarity information: DOG DAYS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOG DAYS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

canicular days; canicule; dog days

Hypernyms ("dog days" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Holonyms ("dog days" is a part of...):

summer; summertime (the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox)

 Context examples 

Our eyes lifted over the rosebeds and the hot lawn and the weedy refuse of the dog days along shore. Slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky. Ahead lay the scalloped ocean and the abounding blessed isles.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)