Definition of winter

"winter" in the noun sense

1. winter, wintertime

the coldest season of the year in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox

"winter" in the verb sense

1. winter, overwinter

spend the winter

"We wintered on the Riviera"

"Shackleton's men overwintered on Elephant Island"

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Quotations for winter

Every mile is two in winter. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Now is now, and Yule's in winter. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Well-apparelled April on the heel
Of limping Winter treads. [ William Shakespeare ]

Winter is the night of vegetation. [ Bovee ]

The life of a man is a winter way. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Winter thunder bodes summer hunger. [ Proverb ]

A good winter brings a good summer. [ Proverb ]

Winter draws out what summer laid in. [ Proverb ]

O winter, ruler of the inverted year! [ Thomson ]

Stern winter loves a dirge-like sound. [ Wordsworth ]

A green winter makes a fat church-yard. [ Proverb ]

Like a lusty winter, frosty but kindly. [ Proverb ]

It is a hard winter when dogs eat dogs. [ Proverb ]

On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence. [ Keats ]

It rains in summer as well as in winter. [ Proverb ]

A sturdy oak, which nature forms
To brave a hundred winter's storms.
While round its head the whirlwinds blow.
Remains with root infix'd below:
When fell'd to earth, a ship it sails
Through dashing waves and driving gales
And now at sea, again defies
The threatening clouds and howling skies. [ Hoole ]

Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year. [ Shelley ]

No pleader can pervail
Who prays against the laws of Time or Fate,
No matter how we murmur and bewail.
The robins will not build in winter hail
Nor lilacs bloom in February. Wait. [ Elizabeth Akers ]

No vernal blooms their tropid rocks array
But winter lingering chills the lap of May. [ Goldsmith ]

No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array,
But winter lingering chills the lap of May;
No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast.
But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest. [ Goldsmith ]

The honey-bee that wanders all day long
The field, the woodland, and the garden over.
To gather in his fragrant winter store.
Humming in calm content his winter song,
Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast,
The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips.
But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips
The single drop of sweetness closely pressed
Within the poison chalice. [ Anne C. Lynch Botta ]

One fair day in winter makes not birds merry. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The winds of winter wailing through the woods;
The mighty laughter of the vernal floods. [ Abraham Coles ]

A fair day in winter is the mother of a storm. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that passeth a winter's day escapes an enemy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together;
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care;
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short;
Youth is nimble, age is lame;
Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;
Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Age, I do abhor thee; youth I do adore thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

O happy unowned youths! your limbs can bear
The scorching dog-star and the winter's air,
While the rich infant, nursed with care and pain,
Thirsts with each heat and coughs with every rain! [ Gay ]

O wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? [ Shelley ]

Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall. [ Alice Cary ]

Spring has no blossom fairer than thy form;
Winter no snow-wreath purer than thy mind;
The dew-drop trembling to the morning beam
Is like thy smile, pure, transient, heaven refin'd. [ Mrs. Lydia Jane Pierson ]

Drink wine in winter for cold, and in summer for heat. [ Proverb ]

There is winter enough for the snipe and woodcock too. [ Proverb ]

They must hunger in winter, that will not work in summer. [ Proverb ]

A February face, so full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness! [ William Shakespeare ]

The frost performs its secret ministry unhelped by any wind. [ Coleridge ]

Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter's snow. [ Whittier ]

Tell me why the ant midst summer's plenty thinks of winter's want. [ Prior ]

The bee from her industry in the summer eats honey all the winter. [ Proverb ]

When dark December glooms the day, and takes our autumn joys away. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

And winter, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines. [ Alexander Smith ]

Winter binds our strengthened bodies in a cold embrace constringent. [ Thomson ]

Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles. [ Alexander Smith ]

The silent snow possessed the earth, and calmly fell our Christmas-eve. [ Tennyson ]

He that is surprised with the first frost feels it all the winter after. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow. [ Lowell ]

Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Nothing can check his watchful daring. For him the summer has no heat, the winter no ice. [ Boileau of Louis XIV ]

For his bounty, there was no winter in it; an autumn it was that grew the more by reaping. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands. [ Dryden ]

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost! [ Pope ]

These blasted pines, wrecks of a single winter, barkless, branchless, a blighted trunk upon a cursed root [ Byron ]

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vita of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun. [ Colton ]

However old a conjugal union, it still gamers some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom. [ Mme. de Stael ]

However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow some flowers still bloom. [ Mme. de Stael ]

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth. [ Balzac ]

Good books are to the young mind what the wanning sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. [ H. Mann ]

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation. [ Madame Swetchine ]

And now he shook away the snow of time from the winter-green of memory, and beheld the fair years of his childhood uncovered, fresh, green, and balmy, standing afar off before him. [ Richter ]

Rarity gives a charm: thus early fruits are most esteemed; thus winter roses obtain a higher price; thus coyness sets off an extravagant mistress; a door ever open attracts no young suitor. [ Martial ]

For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in summer, and so is every snow-flake in winter. Both upwards and downwards, and all around us, science and speculation pass into mystery at last. [ William Mountford ]

Beautiful to Ledyard, stiffening in the cold of a northern winter, seemed the diminutive, smoke-stained women of Lapland, who wrapped him in their furs, and ministered to his necessities with kindness and gentle words. [ Whittier ]

True, the poisonous breath of the world destroys our illusions, but they resuscitate at once when a ray of love falls upon our benumbed hearts, as the warmth of the sun revives the poor flowers withered by the ices of winter. [ De Finod ]

Even the grasses in exposed fields were bung with innumerable diamond pendants, which jingled merrily when brushed by the foot of the traveler. * * * It was as if some superincumbent stratum of the earth had been removed in the night, exposing to light a bed of untarnished crystals. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

A woman's life can be divided thus: the age when she dances but does not dare to waltz - it is the spring; the age when she dances and dares to waltz - it is summer; the age when she dances but prefers to waltz - it is autumn; finally, when she dances no longer - it is winter, that rigorous winter of life. [ Mme. de Girardin ]

The friendship of the world is like the leaves falling from their trees in autumn; while the sap of maintenance lasts, friends swarm in abundance; but in the winter of our need, they leave us naked. He is a happy man that hath a true friend at his need; but he is more truly happy that hath no need of a friend. [ Arthur Warwick ]

winter in Scrabble®

The word winter is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters winter:

WINTER
(39)
TWINER
(39)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word winter

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In winter

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winter in Words With Friends™

The word winter is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters winter:

WINTER
(66)
 

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Words within the letters of winter

2 letter words in winter (5 words)

3 letter words in winter (10 words)

5 letter words in winter (4 words)

6 letter words in winter (Anagrams) (2 words)

Word Growth involving winter

Shorter words in winter

in inter

in win

Longer words containing winter

midwinter midwinterly

midwinter midwinters

overwinter overwintered

overwinter overwintering

overwinter overwinters

winterberries

winterberry

wintercress wintercresses

wintered overwintered

winterer winterers

winterfed

winterfeed winterfeeding

winterfeed winterfeeds

wintergreen wintergreens

winterier

winteriest

winteriness

wintering overwintering

winterisation winterisations

winterise winterised

winterise winterises

winterish winterishly

winterish winterishness

winterising

winterization winterizations

winterize winterized unwinterized

winterize winterizes

winterizing

winterkill winterkilled

winterkill winterkilling winterkillings

winterkill winterkills

winterless

winterlike

winterliness

winterly midwinterly

winterproof

winters midwinters

winters overwinters

wintertide wintertides

wintertime wintertimes

wintery