"Summer" meaning in English

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Proper name

Forms: Summers [plural], Simmer [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun|s}} Summer (plural Summers)
  1. (countable) A female given name from English of modern usage, from summer, the name of the season, often given to girls born in summer. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-Summer-en-name-pj~QJ1zy Categories (other): English female given names, English given names, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 92 4 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 7 entries: 60 24 7 3 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 68 19 6 2 5
  2. (countable) A surname. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-Summer-en-name-EMUC1F3L Categories (other): English surnames
  3. (archaic or poetic) Alternative letter-case form of summer. Tags: alt-of, archaic, poetic Alternative form of: summer
    Sense id: en-Summer-en-name-UBI~2cLy

Inflected forms

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          "text": "I am very prodigall of cappings, namely in Summer, and I never receive any from what quality of men ſoever, but I giue them as good and as many as they bring, except he be ſome ſervant of mine.",
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          "text": "Light limp caps of woollen, with brood visors, or broad-brimmed (but not too broad,) felt hats; double-breasted coats, so made that they can be worn open in warm weather, and will really protect the chest in a lower temperature; trowsers of the same, and under these, light flannel shirts and drawers; such are the proper materials for a soldier’s dress, even in the Summer months.",
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          "text": "In early Summer, several years ago, we were ornithologizing in a beautiful clump of natural wood along a steep brae face, so well sheltered from the north and east, and with so sunny and southern an aspect, that it had been known to us for years as the very paradise of all sorts of singing birds in the nesting season.",
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          "ref": "1929, The Glovers Review - Volume 29, page xiv:",
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