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Autumn

The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.

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Season 76% connected

One of the divisions of the year, marked by alternations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., ca…

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Fall 92% connected

To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Climatology noun · 78% connection

The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes.

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Arctic adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, o…

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Arid adjective · 78% connection

Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren.

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Climate verb · 78% connection

One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided,…

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Climatic adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.

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Clime noun · 78% connection

A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate.

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Continental adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a continent.

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Desiccate verb · 78% connection

To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit.

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Desiccated imp. & p. p. · 78% connection

of Desiccate

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Drought noun · 78% connection

Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; ar…

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Drouth noun · 78% connection

Same as Drought.

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Frigid adjective · 78% connection

Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.

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Gelid adjective · 78% connection

Cold; very cold; frozen.

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Glacial adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena.

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Icy superl. · 78% connection

Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty.

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Maritime adjective · 78% connection

Bordering on, or situated near, the ocean; connected with the sea by site, interest, or power; having shipping and commerce or a navy;…

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Monsoon noun · 78% connection

A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularl…

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Allhallown adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the time of Allhallows. [Obs.] "Allhallown summer." Shak. (i. e., late summer; "Indian Summer").

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: third, season, year, summer, winter.
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Annual adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.

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Apricot noun · 78% connection

A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which b…

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Ascians n. pl. · 78% connection

Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a…

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Baneberry noun · 78% connection

A genus (Actaea) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceae, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous.

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Bissextile noun · 78% connection

Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5…

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Butterwort noun · 78% connection

A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insec…

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Cancer noun · 78% connection

A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab,…

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Catchfly noun · 78% connection

A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The spe…

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December noun · 78% connection

The twelfth and last month of the year, containing thirty-one days. During this month occurs the winter solstice.

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Dog days unknown · 78% connection

A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early par…

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Ermine noun · 78% connection

A valuable fur-bearing animal of the genus Mustela (M. erminea), allied to the weasel; the stoat. It is found in the northern parts of…

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