{
    "term": "summer",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the warmest season of the year, coming between spring and autumn",
            "sensetop": "in the summerin summerduring the summerover the summerthroughout the summer",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We're going away in the summer.",
                    "contextForm": "in the summer"
                },
                {
                    "text": "in the summer of 2019"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**this/next/last summer**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "two summers ago"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's very hot here in summer.",
                    "contextForm": "in summer"
                },
                {
                    "text": "late/early summer"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is now **high summer** *(= the hottest part of summer)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "during the long **hot summer**",
                    "contextForm": "during the summer"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a cool/wet summer"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I managed to get six weeks' work over the summer.",
                    "contextForm": "over the summer"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sales will take place throughout the **spring and summer**.",
                    "contextForm": "throughout the summer"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a summer’s day"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was wearing a light summer dress."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The house is now open to the public during the **summer months**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **summer holidays/vacation/break**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We're at the height of **summer** travel **season**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Are you looking for a summer job?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Seville is scorching in high summer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are two new courses being run in the summer term."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Insect populations reach high levels during the summer."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["last", "this past", "the following"],
                "summer + noun": ["heat", "temperature", "weather"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "you must not take too seriously a small sign that something is happening or will happen in the future, because the situation could change",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsʌmə(r)/",
                "audio": "su/summer/summer__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsʌmər/",
                "audio": "su/summer/summer__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English sumor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zomer, German Sommer, also to Sanskrit samā ‘year’."
}