summery

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sŭmʹə-rē, IPA^(key): /ˈsʌməɹi/

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• Homophone: summary

Etymology 1

From Middle English somery; equivalent to summer +‎ -y. Compare Swedish somrig (“summery”).

Adjective

summery (comparative summerier, superlative summeriest)

1. Relating to the summer.

   She wore a light summery dress.

2. Of weather, typical of summer.

Synonyms

• (relating to the summer): aestival, estival, summer (as a modifier)
• (of weather, typical of summer): summerish, summerlike, summerly

Derived terms

• summeriness

Translations

relating to the summer

Arabic: صَيْفِيّ (ṣayfiyy) Gulf Arabic: صيفي (ṣēfi) Belarusian: ле́тні (ljétni) Bulgarian: летен (leten) Cornish: havek Dutch: zomers (nl) Esperanto: somera Finnish: kesäinen (fi) French: d'été, estival (fr) Galician: estival (gl) Georgian: საზაფხულო (sazapxulo), ზაფხულის (zapxulis), ზაფხულური (zapxuluri) (nonstandard) German: sommerlich (de), Sommer- (de) Greek: καλοκαιριάτικος (el) (kalokairiátikos) Hungarian: nyári (hu) Italian: estivo (it) m Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ھاوینی (hawînî) Northern Kurdish: havînî (ku) Manx: sourinagh Polish: letni (pl) Portuguese: estival (pt) Russian: ле́тний (ru) (létnij) Spanish: veraniego (es) Swedish: somrig (sv), sommar- Ukrainian: лі́тній (uk) (lítnij) Welsh: hafaidd (cy)

of weather, typical of summer

Bulgarian: летен (leten) Esperanto: somera Finnish: kesäinen (fi) French: d'été, estival m Galician: estival (gl) Georgian: ზაფხულის (zapxulis), ზაფხულური (zapxuluri) (nonstandard) German: sommerlich (de) Greek: καλοκαιριάτικος (el) (kalokairiátikos) Hungarian: nyárias (hu) Portuguese: estival (pt) Russian: ле́тний (ru) (létnij) Swedish: sommar-, somrig (sv) Welsh: hafaidd (cy)

Etymology 2

Noun

summery

1. Misspelling of summary.
   • 1970, Morris Kominsky, chapter VII, in The Hoaxers: Plain Liars, Fancy Liars, and Damned Liars‎, volume I, Boston: Branden Press, Inc., 8283-1288-5, page 451:

     We are reasonably certain that every reader will understand the danger and downright immorality of using quotation marks in a careless or flippant manner, that only a person’s actual words may be placed in quotation marks, and that a summery or paraphrase must be so labeled or identified.

   • 2024 February 12, Alaina Demopoulos, “Romcom ending: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s big night at the Super Bowl”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     With Swift, Spice, Lively and Avignone hugging each other, it was a picture-perfect visual summery of Swift’s brand: manufactured empowerment, a celebration of pop feminist girl power.

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