winter

名词 winter:

1. the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox
   同义词：wintertime

动词 winter:

1. spend the winter
   同义词：overwinter

1. It became fashionable for the rich to winter in the sun.
   在阳光充足的地方过冬成了富人的时尚。
2. Winter is the coldest season in a year.
   冬季是一年中最冷的季节。

win.ter

n.（名词）
The usually coldest season of the year, occurring between autumn and spring, extending in the Northern Hemisphere from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox, and popularly considered to be constituted by December, January, and February.
冬，冬季：通常是一年中最冷的季节，介于秋天和春天之间，在北半球从冬至到春分，通常来讲包括十二月、一月和二月
A year as expressed through the recurrence of the winter season.
年，岁：根据冬季的轮回而说的一年
A period of time characterized by coldness, misery, barrenness, or death.
萧条期：以寒冷、穷困、荒芜或死亡为特点的一段时期
adj.（形容词）
Of, relating to, occurring in, or appropriate to the season of winter:
冬天的：冬季的，冬季发生的，适于冬天的：
例句：
winter blizzards; winter attire.
冬天的大风雪；冬装

Grown during the season of winter:
冬季里生长的：
例句：
winter herbs.
越冬草类

v.（动词）
win.tered,win.ter.ing,win.ters
v.intr.（不及物动词）
To spend the winter:
过冬：渡过冬天：
例句：
wintered in Arizona.
在亚利桑那州过冬

To feed in winter. Used withon :
靠吃…过冬。和on 连用：
例句：
deer wintering on cedar bark.
靠雪松树皮过冬的鹿

v.tr.（及物动词）
To lodge, keep, or care for during the winter:
照料，看顾：在冬季提供住宿、收留或照顾：
例句：
wintering the sheep in the stable.
让绵羊在羊圈里过冬

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Old English * see wed-
源自 古英语 *参见 wed-

【引伸】
win.terish
adj.（形容词）
<注释>Winter, spring, summer, fall.It is not too difficult to see how the season namesspring and fall came into being, but without some background information it is impossible to tell what the origins of the wordswinter and summer are. Summer goes back to the Indo-European root .sem-, meaning .summer.. From a suffixed form of this root came the prehistoric Common Germanic word.sumaraz, the ancestor of Old Englishsumor and its descendant, Modern English summer. This is the only Indo-European root referring to a season that has survived in an English name for a season.Of the other three,.wesr-, .spring,. has produced words such as vernal; ghyem-, .winter,. has given us words such as hibernate; andesen-, .harvest, fall,. has yielded earn ( from the prehistoric Common Germanic word.aznôn, .to do harvest work, serve.). Winter does, however, go back to the Indo-European root wed-, .water, wet.. From the formwe-n-d- of this root with the nasal infix -n- was derived the Germanic word .wintruz, with the underlying meaning .wet season. and the literal meaning .winter..The Germanic word is the source of Old Englishwinter, the ancestor of Modern English winter.
冬，春，夏，秋。说出季节名spring 和 fall 的来历不是很难， 但如果没有一些背景知识，不可能知道winter 和 summer 的词源。 Summer 可追溯到印欧语中的词根 sem- ，意思是.夏天.。 给这个词根加后缀后又转化为史前的普通日尔曼词sumaraz， 这是古英语中sumor 的前身，由此又发展来现代英语中的 summer。 这是印欧语中表季节的词根在英语中作为季节名保留下来的唯一一个。另外三个wesr- .春.产生了象 vernal这类的词； ghyem-.冬.又给了我们单词 hibernate； esen- .收获，秋天.衍生出 earn ( 从史前的普通日尔曼词aznon .做收获的工作，服务.而来）。 然而winter 得追溯到印欧词根 wed- .水，湿的.。 由这个词根的we-n-d 形式和鼻音中缀 -n- 衍生出日尔曼语词 wintruz， 其隐含的意思是.湿润的季节.和字面意义.冬天.。这个日尔曼词是古英语中winter 的前身，也是现代英语 winter 的前身