autumn

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autumn^¹

/ˈɔːtəm/ UK
/ˈɔtəm/ US
[ˈɔɾɪ̈m] US
[ˈɔɾm̩] US
/ˈɑtəm/ cot caught merger
[ˈɑɾɪ̈m] cot caught merger
[ˈɑɾm̩] cot caught merger

Rhymes with -ɔːtəm

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English autumpne, from Middle French automne, from Old French automne, autonne, from Latin autumnus. Some of the verbal senses are from Latin autumnāre.

noun autumns · autum

countable, uncountable Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves, and temperatures and daylight hours decrease; typically regarded as spanning the months of September, October, and November in the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere. autumn leaves
Similar: fall, harvest, back end
broadly, countable, uncountable The time period when someone or something is past its prime. She has beauty still, and if it be not in its heyday, it is not yet in its autumn.
Similar: decline
countable, uncountable A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.

verb autumns · autumning · autumned · autum

intransitive To spend the autumn (in a particular place). True it is that, owing to the migratory propensities of our countrymen, every third man has wintered at Naples, springed at Vienna, summered in Switzerland, and autumned on the banks of the Lago Maggiore;
ambitransitive To (cause to) undergo the changes associated with autumn, such as leaves changing color and falling from trees. The glistening path where weeds had clung, / And tumbled bushes lay, / Was hidden now, but yet there rung / Tones of an autumned May.[…]And cheers rang out, the song and shout, / For the fray had found its eve, / And pirate chief like autumned leaf, / O’er fallen pride did grieve!”

Autumn^²

proper noun Autumns

A female given name from English of modern usage, from autumn, the name of the season.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: fall, winter, summer, chu, spring, choo, chiu, qiu, herbst, automne, leaf-fall, harvest, harvesttime, vintage, backend, michaelmas

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noun season

Español	otoño, otoñada
한국어	가을 ga'eul, 추계 chugye
日本語	秋 aki, 秋季 shūki, 秋期 shūki
中文	秋天 qiūtiān, 秋季 qiūjì
हिन्दी	शरद् śarad, पतझड़ patjhaṛ, ख़िज़ाँ xizā̃, पाईज़ pāīz
Kiswahili	vuli, majira ya pukutiko, kipindi cha bubujiko
Português	outono
Français	automne
Deutsch	Herbst, Herbstzeit
Italiano	autunno
Ελληνικά	φθινόπωρο fthinóporo
Română	toamnă
Русский	о́сень ósenʹ
Tiếng Việt	mùa thu, thu
العربية	خَرِيف ḵarīf
עברית	סתיו, סְתָו s'táv

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@misc{autumn_2026,
  title = {autumn},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/autumn},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}