Autumn

What do we mean by autumn?

The season of the year between summer and winter, during which the weather becomes cooler and many plants become dormant, extending in the Northern Hemisphere from the autumnal equinox to the winter solstice and popularly considered to include the months of September, October, and November; fall. In the Southern Hemisphere autumn includes March, April, and May. noun

A period of maturity verging on decline. noun

Relating to or occurring in autumn. adjective

Grown during the season of autumn. adjective

The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter: often called fall, as being the time of the falling of the leaves. noun

Figuratively noun

A period of maturity, or of incipient decay, abatement, or decline: as, the autumn of life. noun

The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called “the fall.” Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November. noun

The harvest or fruits of autumn. noun

The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage. noun

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. noun

Of or relating to autumn. adjective

The season when the leaves fall from the trees noun

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.

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

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

Words that are spelled similarly to autumn:
autumn, autun, autum.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word autumn:
annals, winter, spring, harvest, stakes, mild, rainfall, flowers, leaves, warm, leaf.

Words that rhyme with autumn:
bottom, notum, dotcom, notam, rock bottom, at bottom, quotum, ottomh, foggy bottom, cottam, ocean bottom, sea bottom, sulfur bottom, river bottom, lake bottom, higginbottom, allot him, begot him, blot him, bought him, boycott him, brought him, brought tim, caught him, cottom, forgot him, fought him, got him, gott im, lat him, lot him, not him, ot him, ottum, pot him, rot him, saw tim, shot him, sought him, spot him, staat im, swat him, taught him, thought him, thought tim, trot him, wrought him.

Adjectives that are often used to describe autumn:
late, early, last, previous, next, mid, golden, wet, hot, dry, past, cold, warm, beautiful, mild, rainy, mellow, glorious, yellow, bright, cool, sad, lovely, jolly, summer, sunny, invigorating, dreary, chilly, pleasant, sober, fruitful, busy, ripe, gloomy, damp, bleak, brilliant, perpetual, sallow, spring, chill, stormy, windy, fateful, crisp, gorgeous, splendid, melancholy, childing, memorable.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective autumn:
winter, leaves, holidays, christmas, song, time, period, moon, fields, days, fires, mien, flowers, flowering, thoughts, night, sunshine, sunlight, festival, spring, color, songs, wind, sown, winds, campaign, colors, tides, sun, mist, tide, evening, sonnets, travelling, light, rambles, crocus, fall, blooming, announcements, twilight, haze, hen, apples, fruit, swallows, landscape, plumage, morning, pears, chill, meditations, tints, shooting, rains, term, nights, trees, weddings, musings, worth, fog, varieties, festivals, food, harvest, scene, shivers, john, wanderings, sheaf, equinox, bergamot, animals, the, rich, colmar, fragrance, grief, voices, roses, travels, gage, weather, pictures, fashions, colour, september, month, music, authors, belle, floods, rain.

Consonant match to autumn:
item, atom, attame, a-team, ottomh, a team, a time, at him, ate him, e term, e time, eat em, eat him, eight time, hat im, hate him, hatte im, hay time, heat him, heat term, heat time, height m, hi tom, hit him, hoot him, it him, ot him, ottum.

Words that sound like autumn:
autumn, auton, automne, autun, item, atom, atum, atam, atim, itam, etem, attame, oughta, auden, otten, otomy, autumns, atem, watm, gautam, outen, odam, autm, outten, itim, adam, eaten, edam, eaton, odom, eton, stum, aten, edom, oten, adem, adom, atten, iton, eitan, atime, odum, eten, iten, a time, atan, a-team, edem, etan, oaten, schtum, shtum, stumm, etam, etten, oton, atome, etim, eyton, otan, a team, etom, stumme, outing, otting, out in, ahem, awesome, bottom, eating, cotton, austin, auto, awsome, gotten, ating, ata, alton, boughten, auston, houghton, aurum, atin, artem, cottam, all-time, foughten, haughton, auto-, atting, ettin, auda, all time, adim, aata, automa, altan, edim, eidem, eat in.