INDIAN SUMMER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Indian summer mean? 

• INDIAN SUMMER (noun)
  The noun INDIAN SUMMER has 1 sense:

1. a period of unusually warm weather in the autumn

  Familiarity information: INDIAN SUMMER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIAN SUMMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A period of unusually warm weather in the autumn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Indian summer; Saint Martin's summer

Hypernyms ("Indian summer" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Indian summer" is a part of...):

autumn; fall (the season when the leaves fall from the trees)

 Context examples 

On a beautiful fall day, a day of similar Indian summer to that which had seen their love declared the year before, Martin read his "Love-cycle" to Ruth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The Indian summer had dreamed on and on, and then, suddenly, with the sharpness of bugles, winter came.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The imprisonment of Wolf Larsen had happened most opportunely, for what must have been the Indian summer of this high latitude was gone and drizzling stormy weather had set in.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Came a beautiful fall day, warm and languid, palpitant with the hush of the changing season, a California Indian summer day, with hazy sun and wandering wisps of breeze that did not stir the slumber of the air.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)