名詞 winter:

1. the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox
   同義詞：wintertime

動詞 winter:

1. spend the winter
   同義詞：overwinter

1. It became fashionable for the rich to winter in the sun.
   在陽光充足的地方過冬成了富人的時尚。
2. Winter is the coldest season in a year.
   冬季是一年中最冷的季節(jié)。

win.ter

n.（名詞）
The usually coldest season of the year, occurring between autumn and spring, extending in the Northern Hemisphere from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox, and popularly considered to be constituted by December, January, and February.
冬，冬季：通常是一年中最冷的季節(jié)，介于秋天和春天之間，在北半球從冬至到春分，通常來講包括十二月、一月和二月
A year as expressed through the recurrence of the winter season.
年，歲：根據(jù)冬季的輪回而說的一年
A period of time characterized by coldness, misery, barrenness, or death.
蕭條期：以寒冷、窮困、荒蕪或死亡為特點的一段時期
adj.（形容詞）
Of, relating to, occurring in, or appropriate to the season of winter:
冬天的：冬季的，冬季發(fā)生的，適于冬天的：
例句：
winter blizzards; winter attire.
冬天的大風雪；冬裝

Grown during the season of winter:
冬季里生長的：
例句：
winter herbs.
越冬草類

v.（動詞）
win.tered,win.ter.ing,win.ters
v.intr.（不及物動詞）
To spend the winter:
過冬：渡過冬天：
例句：
wintered in Arizona.
在亞利桑那州過冬

To feed in winter. Used withon :
靠吃…過冬。和on 連用：
例句：
deer wintering on cedar bark.
靠雪松樹皮過冬的鹿

v.tr.（及物動詞）
To lodge, keep, or care for during the winter:
照料，看顧：在冬季提供住宿、收留或照顧：
例句：
wintering the sheep in the stable.
讓綿羊在羊圈里過冬

來源：
Middle English
中古英語
from Old English * see wed-
源自 古英語 *參見 wed-

【引伸】
win.terish
adj.（形容詞）
<注釋>Winter, spring, summer, fall.It is not too difficult to see how the season namesspring and fall came into being, but without some background information it is impossible to tell what the origins of the wordswinter and summer are. Summer goes back to the Indo-European root .sem-, meaning .summer.. From a suffixed form of this root came the prehistoric Common Germanic word.sumaraz, the ancestor of Old Englishsumor and its descendant, Modern English summer. This is the only Indo-European root referring to a season that has survived in an English name for a season.Of the other three,.wesr-, .spring,. has produced words such as vernal; ghyem-, .winter,. has given us words such as hibernate; andesen-, .harvest, fall,. has yielded earn ( from the prehistoric Common Germanic word.aznôn, .to do harvest work, serve.). Winter does, however, go back to the Indo-European root wed-, .water, wet.. From the formwe-n-d- of this root with the nasal infix -n- was derived the Germanic word .wintruz, with the underlying meaning .wet season. and the literal meaning .winter..The Germanic word is the source of Old Englishwinter, the ancestor of Modern English winter.
冬，春，夏，秋。說出季節(jié)名spring 和 fall 的來歷不是很難， 但如果沒有一些背景知識，不可能知道winter 和 summer 的詞源。 Summer 可追溯到印歐語中的詞根 sem- ，意思是.夏天.。 給這個詞根加后綴后又轉(zhuǎn)化為史前的普通日爾曼詞sumaraz， 這是古英語中sumor 的前身，由此又發(fā)展來現(xiàn)代英語中的 summer。 這是印歐語中表季節(jié)的詞根在英語中作為季節(jié)名保留下來的唯一一個。另外三個wesr- .春.產(chǎn)生了象 vernal這類的詞； ghyem-.冬.又給了我們單詞 hibernate； esen- .收獲，秋天.衍生出 earn ( 從史前的普通日爾曼詞aznon .做收獲的工作，服務(wù).而來）。 然而winter 得追溯到印歐詞根 wed- .水，濕的.。 由這個詞根的we-n-d 形式和鼻音中綴 -n- 衍生出日爾曼語詞 wintruz， 其隱含的意思是.濕潤的季節(jié).和字面意義.冬天.。這個日爾曼詞是古英語中winter 的前身，也是現(xiàn)代英語 winter 的前身