Word Finder - autumn

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Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves; typically regarded as being from September 24 to December 22 in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere.

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(by extension) The time period when someone or something is past its prime.

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A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.

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Of or relating to autumn; autumnal

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autumn leaves

It was a clear bright autumn day, a Sunday.

It was a warm, dark, autumn night.

It was a warm rainy autumn day.

The autumn equinox is almost upon us.

It was an autumn night with dark purple clouds, but no rain.

A damp dull autumn morning was just dawning.

I spent the autumn months with my family at our summer cottage, on a mountain about fourteen miles from Tuscumbia.

Advance in his religious ideas led him to seek the freer atmosphere of Strassburg in the autumn of 1529.

In 1894 a more serious rebellion in the mountainous region of Sassun was ruthlessly stamped out; the Powers insistently demanded reforms, the eventual grant of which in the autumn of 1895 was the signal for a series of massacres, brought on in part by the injudicious and threatening acts of the victims, and extending over many months and throughout Asia Minor, as well as in the capital itself.

In the autumn she went to a circus.

In the autumn of 429 he died' and was buried near the Academia, where Pausanias (150 A.D.) saw his tomb.

The sun set too early on the autumn day, and she finished the trip to Doolin in darkness.

So were early autumn frosts and late spring freezes.

The island is subject to strong winds, which are especially felt at Cagliari owing to its position at the south-east end of the Campidano, and the autumn rains are sometimes of almost tropical violence.

In this primeval, or rather timeless because ever-proceeding, sacrifice, time itself, in the shape of its unit the year, is made to take its part, inasmuch as the three seasons - spring, summer and autumn - of which it consists, constitute the ghee (clarified butter), the offering-fuel and the oblation respectively.

In the summer and autumn the winds are light.

In the autumn the Rostovs returned to Moscow.

The weather was already growing wintry and morning frosts congealed an earth saturated by autumn rains.

Autumn had begun to creep over New England, promising to transform the landscape into the backdrop that Jackson Parrish so loved.

One brief spring, musical with the song of robin and mocking-bird, one summer rich in fruit and roses, one autumn of gold and crimson sped by and left their gifts at the feet of an eager, delighted child.

So many autumn, ay, and winter days, spent outside the town, trying to hear what was in the wind, to hear and carry it express!

The bounty of New England's autumn surrounded them, and the sun reflected off the leaves as if it were playing with the tone, searching for the perfect combination of pigment.

The sweaters weren't just the most vibrant shades of autumn, they were softer than anything she'd ever experienced.

Gathering volunteers in the autumn of 1867, he prepared to enter papal territory, but was arrested at Sinalunga by the Italian government and conducted to Caprera.

He was appointed to the Greek professorship in the autumn of that year.

The greater portion, however, of the numerous bands which visit the British Islands in autumn and winter doubtless come from the Continent - perhaps even from far to the eastward, since its range stretches across Asia to Japan, in which country it is as favourite a cage-bird as with us.

Thus his " studious and sedentary life " passed pleasantly enough, interrupted only at rare intervals by boyish excursions of a day or a week in the neighbourhood, and by at least one memorable tour of Switzerland, by Basel, Zurich, Lucerne and Bern, made along with Pavilliard in the autumn of 1755.

He returned in the autumn to find England on the verge of civil war.

The most settled season is the autumn.

Plants disturbed in autumn frequently die during the winter.

The prevailing winds are westerly, with north-north-east and south winds in autumn and winter, and east winds in spring.

His attitude in the House of Peers in the autumn of 1815 cost him a two years' exile to Twickenham; he courted popularity by having his children educated en bourgeois at the public schools; and the Palais Royal became the rendezvous of all the leaders of that middle-class opinion by which he was ultimately to be raised to the throne.

He entered Harvard College in the autumn of 1811, but almost at the outset his career was interrupted by an accident which affected the subsequent course of his life.

When at last in the autumn he was in condition to travel, it was determined that he should pass the winter at St Michael's and in the spring obtain medical advice in Europe.

The stout horizontally spreading branches give a cedar-like appearance; the foliage is light and feathery; the leaves and the slender shoots which bear them fall in the autumn.

In the autumn of 1841 he was succeeded in office by Lord Ellenborough, and returned to England in the following year.

The vigorous attacks of the Opposition, led by Baron Sonnino, induced Giolitti to adjourn the debate until the autumn, when, the Cabinet having been defeated on a point of procedure, he resigned (Dec. 2).

Mangels are sown earlier and have a longer period of growth than turnips; if they become well established in the summer they are less susceptible to autumn drought.

By the autumn of 1921 conditions for work were improving.

In the autumn of this year his tragedy of Becket was published, but the poet at last despaired of the stage, and disclaimed any hope of "meeting the exigencies of our modern theatre."

Sow salading every ten days; also carrots, onions and radishes for drawing young; and chicory for salads; sow endive for a full crop. In the first week sow Early Munich and Golden Ball turnips for succession, and in the third week for a full autumn crop. Sow scarlet and white runner beans for a late crop, and cabbages for coleworts.

Net up, in dry weather, gooseberry and currant bushes, to preserve the fruit till late in the autumn.

On the whole, the temperature is in the winter months considerably colder than that of England, and a good deal hotter during summer and autumn.

The deep-sea fishery may be further divided into the so-called " great " or " salt-herring " fishery, mainly carried on from Vlaardingen and Maasluis during the summer and autumn, and the " fresh-herring " fishery, chiefly pursued at Scheveningen, Katwijk and Noordwijk.

Empusa Muscae causes the wellknown epidemic in house-flies during the autumn; the dead, affected flies are often found attached to the window surrounded by a white halo of conidia.

There is little doubt that it would have been exterminated but for its stock being supplied in autumn by immigration, and for its shy and wary behaviour, especially at the breeding-season, when it becomes almost wholly mute, and thereby often escapes detection.

The first demands of Cromwell were impossible, for they aimed at the absorption of the two republics into a single state, but at last in the autumn of 1654 peace was concluded, by which the Dutch made large concessions and agreed to the striking of the flag to English ships in the narrow seas.

In the autumn in the Record Office, London; these throw much light on the fought a war of manoeuvre against General Meade.

In the autumn of 1737 he was in London arranging for its publication and polishing it in preparation for the judgments of the learned.

He had been elected mayor of the ninth arrondissement of Paris in the autumn of 1870, and in March was sent by the same district to the Commune, from which he resigned when he found no reconciliation was possible between the mayors and the Commune.