Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.
- 2noun
The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
- 3intransitive verb
To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florida.
- 4intransitive verb
To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.
- 5noun
the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox
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- 6verb
spend the winter
"We wintered on the Riviera"
"Shackleton's men overwintered on Elephant Island"
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