Meaning of Summer, Spring, Autumn and Winter?

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Meaning of Summer, Spring, Autumn and Winter?

Answer 1

Meaning? Are you looking for a philosophical, poetical, or scientific response. The seasons occur outside the tropics because of the Earth's angle of tilt relative to its orbital plane around the sun.

Answer 2

The seasons changed due to earth's proximity to the sun and also by the axis of the earth.

Answer 3

Spring: "season following winter," 1547, earlier springing time, (1387), spring-time (1495), spring of the year (1530), which had replaced O.E. Lent by late 14c. From spring (v.); the notion is of the "spring of the year," when plants "spring up" (cf. spring of the leaf, 1538).

Summer: "hot season of the year," O.E. sumor, from P.Gmc. *sumur

Autumn: c.1374, from O.Fr. autumpne, from L. autumnus, a word probably of Etruscan origin. Harvest was the Eng. name for the season until autumn began to displace it 16c. In Britain, the season is popularly August through October; in U.S., September through November.

Winter: O.E., "fourth season of the year," from P.Gmc. *wentruz

Note that O.E. means Old English, O. Fr. means Old French, L. means Latin, and Gmc means Germanic.