Usually means: Cold season with shortest days.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. winter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. winter: Merriam-Webster
  3. winter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. winter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. winter: Collins English Dictionary
  6. winter: Vocabulary.com
  7. Winter, winter: Wordnik
  8. winter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Winter, winter: Wiktionary
  10. winter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. winter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. winter: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. winter: Dictionary.com
  14. winter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. winter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Winter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. winter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. winter: Rhymezone
  20. Winter (m), winter, winter (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. winter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. winter: FreeDictionary.org
  23. winter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. winter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. winter: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. winter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. WINTER: Acronym Finder
  5. winter: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Winter: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. winter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Winter: A Seattle Lexicon
  3. Winter: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See wintered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as being from December to February 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.
noun:  (figuratively, poetic) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
noun:  (countable, fashion) Someone with dark skin, eyes and hair, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
noun:  (obsolete) An appliance to be fixed on the front of a grate, to keep a kettle warm, etc.
noun:  (India, archaic) The rainy season.
verb:  (intransitive) To spend the winter (in a particular place).
verb:  (transitive) To store something (for instance animals) somewhere over winter to protect it from cold.
noun:  (countable) A surname from the Germanic languages.
noun:  (countable) A unisex given name.
noun:  A placename
noun:  An unincorporated community in Senlac Rural Municipality No. 411, Saskatchewan, Canada.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States.
noun:  A small town and village in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States.
noun:  The personification of winter, wintertime
noun:  (poetry) Alternative form of winter [Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as being from December to February 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.]

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