summertime

See also: summer time and summer-time

English

Alternative forms

• summer-time

Etymology

From Middle English somertime, equivalent to summer +‎ time. Compare Dutch zomertijd (“summertime”), German Sommerzeit (“summertime”), Danish sommertiden (“summertime”), Swedish sommartid (“summertime”). Compare summertide.

Noun

summertime (countable and uncountable, plural summertimes)

1. The period or season of summer.

Synonyms

• summertide

Translations

the period or season of summer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: kesäaika (fi), kesä (fi)
• French: été (fr) m
• Galician: verán (gl) m
• German: Sommerzeit (de) f, Sommer (de) m
• Greek: καλοκαίρι (el) n (kalokaíri)
• Ingrian: kesäaika
• Italian: estate (it) m
• Japanese: 夏時 (ja) (kaji)
• Macedonian: лето (mk) n (leto)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sommertid (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: sommartid f

• Plautdietsch: Sommatiet f
• Russian: ле́тний сезо́н m (létnij sezón), ле́то (ru) n (léto), ле́тнее вре́мя года n (létneje vrémja goda)
• Serbo-Croatian: ljeto (sh)
• Spanish: verano (es) m, estío (es) m
• Swedish: sommartid (sv)
• Turkish: yazın (tr)
• Tuvan: чайгы үе (çaygı üe)
• Yiddish: זומערצײַט f (zumertsayt)