winter

winter is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.
2. noun. The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
3. intransitive verb. To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florida.
4. intransitive verb. To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.
5. noun. the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox

   Synonyms: wintertime

6. verb. spend the winter

   "We wintered on the Riviera"

   "Shackleton's men overwintered on Elephant Island"

   Synonyms: overwinter

Synonyms

wintertime, overwinter

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in winter:

twiner

Common word forms

winters, wintered, winterer, winterly, wintering, winterise, winterize, winterless

Words from these letters

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