transcription, транскрипция: [ wɪntə(r) ]
( winters, wintering, wintered)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Winter is the season between autumn and spring. In the winter the weather is usually cold.
In winter the nights are long and cold.
...the winter months.
...the late winter of 1941.
N-VAR
2.
If an animal or plant winters somewhere or is wintered there, it spends the winter there.
The birds will winter outside in an aviary...
The young seedlings are usually wintered in a cold frame.
...one of the most important sites for wintering wildfowl.
VERB : V adv / prep , be V-ed prep / adv , V-ing , also V n prep / adv
3.
If you winter somewhere, you spend the winter there. ( FORMAL )
The family decided to winter in Nice again.
VERB : V prep / adv