Winters vs. Winter: What's the Difference?
Winters and Winter Definitions
Winters
In the Northern Hemisphere, usually the coldest season of the year, occurring between autumn and spring and including the months of December, January, and February. In the Southern Hemisphere austral winter includes June, July, and August.
Winter
In the Northern Hemisphere, usually the coldest season of the year, occurring between autumn and spring and including the months of December, January, and February. In the Southern Hemisphere austral winter includes June, July, and August.
Winters
The season extending from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox.
Winter
The season extending from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox.
Winters
A year as expressed through the recurrence of the winter season.
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Winter
A year as expressed through the recurrence of the winter season.
Winters
A period of time characterized by coldness, misery, barrenness, or death.
Winter
A period of time characterized by coldness, misery, barrenness, or death.
Winters
Relating to or occurring in winter
Winter blizzards.
Winter attire.
Winter
Relating to or occurring in winter
Winter blizzards.
Winter attire.
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Winters
Grown during the season of winter
Winter herbs.
Winter
Grown during the season of winter
Winter herbs.
Winters
To spend the winter
Wintered in Arizona.
Winter
To spend the winter
Wintered in Arizona.
Winters
To feed in winter. Used with on
Deer wintering on cedar bark.
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Winter
To feed in winter. Used with on
Deer wintering on cedar bark.
Winters
To lodge, keep, or care for during the winter
Wintering the sheep in the stable.
Winter
To lodge, keep, or care for during the winter
Wintering the sheep in the stable.
Winters
Plural of winter
Winter
Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as being from December 23 to March 20 in continental regions of the Northern Hemisphere or the months of June, July, and August in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, resulting in short days, and the time of year with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region.
Winters
(US) In the winter.
They ski winters in the Laurentians.
Winter
The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
Winter
Someone with dark skin, eyes and hair, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
Winter
(obsolete) An appliance to be fixed on the front of a grate, to keep a kettle warm, etc.
Winter
The rainy season.
Winter
(intransitive) To spend the winter (in a particular place).
When they retired, they hoped to winter in Florida.
Winter
(transitive) To store something (for instance animals) somewhere over winter to protect it from cold.
Winter
The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.
And after summer evermore succeedsBarren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold.
Winter lingering chills the lap of May.
Winter
The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge.
Winter
To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florida.
Because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence.
Winter
To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.
Winter
The coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox
Winter
Spend the winter;
We wintered on the Riviera
