Autumn

Definition: Autumn

Autumn

Adjective

1. Occurring in or appropriate to the season of autumn; "autumn leaves".

Noun

1. The season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973".

"Autumn" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the autumn".

Date "autumn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Autumn \Au"tumn\, noun. [Latin expression auctumnus, autumnus, perhaps from root av to satisfy one's self: compare to the French expression automne. See Avarice.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: Autumn

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	For a woman to dream of Autumn, denotes she will obtain property through the struggles of others. If she thinks of marrying in Autumn, she will be likely to contract a favorable marriage and possess a cheerful home. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Literature	Autumn He is come to his autumn, i.e. to be hanged, to his "fall." A pun on the plan of "turning a man off" by dropping the plank on which he stands. The drop is the "leaf," and autumn is called the "fall," or "fall of the leaf." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Autumn

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Autumn (still called Fall in American English; in England that usage was once standard, but has now become archaic) is one of the four temperate seasons, the transition between summer and winter. In the temperate zones, autumn is the season during which most crops are harvested, and deciduous trees lose their leaves. Astronomically, it begins with the autumnal equinox (around 23 September in the Northern hemisphere, and 21 March in the southern hemisphere), and ends with the winter solstice (around 21 December in the Northern hemisphere and 21 June in the Southern hemisphere). However, meteorologists count instead the whole months of March, April and May in the Southern hemisphere and September, October and November in the Northern hemisphere.
Either definition, as with those of the seasons generally, is flawed because it assumes that the seasons are all of the same length, and begin and end at the same time throughout the temperate zone of each hemisphere.
See also: axial tilt
   
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Autumn."
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Personification of Autumn
(Currier & Ives Lithograph, 1871)
Autumn colours at Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire, England
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Synonyms: Autumn
Synonyms: autumn(a) (adj), fall (n). (additional references)
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Synonyms within Context: Autumn
Context Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Evening
Autumn; fall, fall of the leaf; autumnal equinox; Indian summer, St. Luke's summer, St. Martin's summer.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.
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Crosswords: Autumn
English words defined with "autumn": autumn pumpkin. (references)
Specialty definitions using "autumn": autumn overturn ♦ Betubium, Box Days, Bridge of Gold, Brisingamen ♦ Cobham, Comdex, Cuckoo Oats and Woodcock Hay ♦ Doric Reed, Dorsetian Downs ♦ equinoctial spring tide ♦ Forbës, Fountain of the Virgin ♦ High Performance Serial Bus ♦ Imaus ♦ Kabibonokka ♦ Lavinia and Palemon ♦ Majorca budding, Mayorquine budding, Micah Rood's Apples, Misnomers ♦ NATURE ♦ Onslow ♦ Peripheral Component Interconnect, Philips ♦ Riphean, Roch ♦ Seasons, Serial Storage Architecture, Siluria, succot, succoth, sukkos, sukkot, summerling ♦ vernal-autumnal pond ♦ winter rest. (references)
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Modern Usage: Autumn
Domain Usage
Lyrics
With autumn closing in (Night Moves; performing artist: BOB SEGER; writing credit: Bob Seger)
I'm kicking through the Autumn leaves (Babylon; performing artist: David Gray)
Your shining autumn, ocean crashing (Silver Springs; performing artist: Fleetwood Mac)
It was summer, now it's autumn (Crystal; performing artist: New Order)
No autumn breeze (I Just Called to Say I Love You; performing artist: Stevie Wonder)
Clever
True friends are like diamonds: precious and rare. False friends are like autumn leaves: scattered everywhere. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles
Hungry Autumn (1974)
Spring and Autumn (1972)
Appalachian Autumn (1969)
At the Autumn River Camp: Part 2 (1967)
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Song Titles
AUTUMN LEAVES (performing artist: Roger Williams )
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
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Commercial Usage: Autumn
Domain Title
Books
Aztec Autumn (reference)
Drums of Autumn (reference)
Early Autumn (reference)
Grace In Autumn - A Novel - (reference)
The Divine Hours: Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime (reference)
(more book examples)

Theater & Movies
Autumn in Minnesota Lake Country Relaxation Video (reference)
Cheyenne Autumn (reference)
(more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music
Autumn Songs: Popular Works for Solo Piano (reference)
Half Past Autumn Suite (reference)
(more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech
Autumn New Hamp. Screen Saver [DOWNLOAD] (reference)
Autumn Photo CD (Jewel Case) (reference)
(more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods
Lenox Autumn 13-Inch Gold-Banded Fine China Platter (reference)
Lenox Autumn 20-Piece Gold-Banded Fine China Dinnerware Set (reference)
Lenox Autumn Gold-Banded Fine China Open Vegetable Bowl (reference)
(more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
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Image Slideshow: Autumn
Photos:
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Photo Album: Autumn
Thumbnail Description & Credit Thumbnail Description & Credit
Early morning fog and autumn colors reflected in the Patuxent River at Wayson's Corner. Credit: America's Coastlines.
"The Autumn Sunset". In: "The Heart of the Antarctic", Volume I, by E. H. Shackleton, 1909. P. 46. Library Call Number G149 S52. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
Photo #2. Compare this cross-section to the previous image. Notice the greater width of the outer band. This is because the first cross-section was from a bluefin tuna caught in June while the second was from a tuna caught in November. The wider area represents a long period of high food intake during summer/ autumn months. These images are greatly magnified. Credit: Fisheries.
Autumn Royal, a new seedless grape. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Bob Nichols..
Autumn Red peach. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga..
Autumn tundra, Seward Peninsula near Solomon. Credit: Nick Seifert.
The sun illuminates turning colors on an autumn day near Hell's Half Acre Canyon. Credit: Christine Maxa.
Hiking party in the El Mal Pais recreation area, in the Autumn, heading toward a paleontological site in southeastern New Mexico. Credit: Unknown.
Tetlin NWR Autumn Landscape. Credit: Alaska Image Library.
Autumn panorama, with log Church of Saint Nicholas (1846), southwest view, which was originally built near the site where Lake Baikal drains into the Angara River, Listvianka, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.
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Digital Photo Gallery: Autumn

"Autumn Morning in Vermont" by Justin Heininger
Commentary: "A morning picture taking in the Fall 2003. Mountains in the background are the Adirondacks in the State of New York." "Autumn Colours" by Ian Myatt
Commentary: "A hedgerow in autumn."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.
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Familiar Quotations: Autumn
Author Quotation
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
Robert Browning
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Robertson Davies
He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
Shakespeare
For his bounty there was no winter to it; an autumn it was that grew more by reaping.
Whittier
The tents of autumn -- a mighty flower garden, blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
William Shakespeare
The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Historic Usage: Autumn
Author Date Quotation
Winston S. Churchill
1946
The Agreement which was made at Yalta, to which I was a party, was extremely favorable to Soviet Russia, but it was made at a time when no one could say that the German war might not extend all through the summer and autumn of 1945 and when the Japanese war was expected to last for a further 18 months from the end of the German war. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1963
This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1947)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Use in Literature: Autumn
Title Author Quote
Emma
Austen, Jane
They could go there again with them in the autumn.
Les Miserables
Hugo, Victor
A few yellow leaves, relics of the last autumn, chased one another joyously, and seemed to be playing the (r)gamin
Walden
Thoreau, Henry David
They come rustling through the woods like autumn leaves, at least ten men to one loon
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Autumn
Subject Topic Quote
Business
Drip or trickle irrigation is used in the South, especially in citrus orchards subject to late summer and autumn drought. (references)
The Government expects to raise a further $1.5 billion in the Autumn of 2000 by inviting companies to bid for new broadband fixed-link wireless licenses. (references)
In late autumn 2000, Telekom Austria will be listed on the stock exchange and 25 percent of its shares capital is expected to be floated in a move designed to attract ATS 40 million ($ 2.7 million). (references)
Children
Moldova
The Minister of Education stated that more than 7,000 students did not show up for the first day of classes in the autumn; however, press reports cited a Ministry of Education estimate that 25 percent of students in rural schools did not attend school. (references)
Civil Liberties
Croatia
In the autumn, Parliament debated legislation on a third HRT channel; the legislation was designed to resolve the issue of selling or leasing the third channel. (references)
Economic History
Turkey
Each autumn, the Turkish National Franchise Association (UFRAD) organizes a franchising fair that attracts much interest. (references)
Minorities
Croatia
In the wake of the autumn 2000 termination of the OSCE police monitoring group in the Danubian region (and its replacement with a smaller civilian unit), the police continued to respond appropriately to law and order issues, although some NGO's continued to express concern that ethnic Serbs were reluctant to report ethnically-motivated incidents to authorities. (references)
Political Economy
Peru
Municipal elections are scheduled for the autumn of 2002. (references)
Trade
Uzbekistan
In addition, tariffs, previously assessed on the soum value of the goods at the commercial exchange rate, were now assessed on the value at the new rate, which increased tariffs 2.7-fold. Even at the new rate, however, the government continued to squeeze consumer goods import quotas: importers with quotas of $100,000 or less lost their quotas, and the government continued through the autumn to prune the ranks of the select few remaining quotaholders. (references)
Women
Croatia
Legislation passed in autumn 2000 created a specific Penal Code provision for family violence to replace inadequate existing provisions, and to direct that perpetrators of family violence, in addition to being punished, be placed under supervision and receive psychiatric treatment. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.
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Speeches: Autumn
Speaker Term Phrase(s)
Harry S. Truman
1945-1953 The elimination last autumn of overtime work for nearly all Federal employees meant a sharp cut in their incomes.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Usage Frequency: Autumn
"Autumn" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.97% of the time. "Autumn" is used about 3,914 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of Speech Percent Usage per
100 Million Words Rank in English
Noun (singular) 99.97% 3,913 2,501
Noun (proper) 0.03% 1 339,140
                    Total 100.00% 3,914 N/A
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Name Usage Frequency: Autumn
The following table summarizes the usage of "autumn" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
Name Usage/Gender Usage per 100
million Persons Rank in USA
Autumn First name Female 17,000 660
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Derived & Related Names: Autumn
"Autumn" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the autumn".

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "autumn".

Name Gender Language Meaning
Autumn Male, Female English
The autumn
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: Autumn
Expressions using "autumn": autumn crocus ♦ autumn darkness ♦ autumn day ♦ autumn equinox ♦ autumn fry ♦ autumn gale ♦ autumn leaf ♦ autumn overturn ♦ autumn ploughing ♦ autumn pumpkin ♦ autumn season ♦ autumn sneezeweed ♦ autumn term ♦ autumn wood ♦ early autumn ♦ in the autumn ♦ in the late autumn ♦ last autumn ♦ late autumn ♦ the autumn of life ♦ the reds and the yellows of autumn ♦ this autumn. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
Beginning with "autumn": autumn-blazing, autumn-born, autumn-coloured, autumn-drilled, autumn-flowering, autumn-if, autumn-planted, Autumn-putting-to-bed, autumn-sown, autumn-sown grain, autumn-spring, autumn-tinged, autumn-winter.
Ending with "autumn": mid-autumn.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Autumn
The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression Frequency
per Day Expression Frequency
per Day
autumn
1,346
autumn olive
37
autumn leaf
636
autumn scene
37
art autumn
578
ash autumn
35
from autumn to ash
454
autumn jade.com
32
autumn england new
443
autumn wedding invitation
32
autumn austin
412
autumn wood
30
autumn heart in
365
autumn colors
28
autumn jade
312
autumn wallpaper
28
autumn in new england
245
autumn leaf lyrics
27
ash autumn from lyrics
197
autumn emilie
25
autumn wedding
120
autumn cake wedding
25
autumn haze
90
autumn clematis sweet
24
autumn flower
48
autumn photo
24
autumn blaze maple
46
ash autumn from guitar tab
22
mostly autumn
45
autumn purple ash
22
ash autumn from tab
45
autumn tree
22
autumn in new york
44
austin autumn movie
22
autumn james
42
autumn story
20
autumn joy sedum
41
autumn drama heart in korean
20
autumn picture
40
autumn gallery
20
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
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Modern Translation: Autumn
Language Translations for "autumn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans

herfs (fall). (various references)

Albanian

vjeshtak (autumnal), vjeshtë (fall), vjeshta. (various references)

Arabic

‏فصل الخريف, ‏خريفي (autumnal, fall), ‏خريف العمر, ‏الكهولة (middle age). (various references)

Basque

udazken. (various references)

Bulgarian

есенен (autumnal), есен (fall). (various references)

Chinese

秋天 . (various references)

Cornish

Kynyaf. (various references)

Croatian

jesen. (various references)

Czech

podzim (autopsy, fall, the sear and yellow leaf). (various references)

Danish

høst (fall, harvest), efterår (fall). (various references)

Dutch

najaars-, herfst-. (various references)

Esperanto

aŭtuno, aŭtuna, a—tuno. (various references)

Estonian

sügis. (various references)

Faeroese

heyst (fall). (various references)

Farsi

پاءیز (Fall), سومین دوره زندگی , زمان رسیدن ونزول چیزی , زردی (Yellow), خزان (Fall), اخرین قسمت (Tagend), دوران کمال , برگ ریزان . (various references)

Finnish

syksy (fall). (various references)

French

automne, automnal (autumnal). (various references)

Frisian

hjest (fall). (various references)

German

Herbst (fall, harvest), herbstlich (autumnal). (various references)

Greek

φθινόπωρο (autumn = fall, fall). (various references)

Haitian Creole

otòn. (various references)

Hebrew

שלכת (effoliation, fall), סתו (fall). (various references)

Hungarian

õszi (fall), õsz (fall, fall/autumn, grey, grey headed, greyish, hoary, white-headed), ősz (fall, frosted, grizzled, hoar, hoary, white), ôsz (fall). (various references)

Icelandic

haust (fall). (various references)

Indonesian

musim rontok (fall), musim gugur. (various references)

Irish

fómhar (harvest). (various references)

Italian

autunno (fall). (various references)

Japanese Kanji

秋 (fall). (various references)

Japanese Katakana

くさがれ (withering of the grass), しゅうじつ (a weekday, all day, autumn day), しゅうき (autumnair, bad smell, closing, cycle, death anniversary, ending, fall, period, religious regulations, stink), あき (emptiness, fall, former name of Hiroshima prefecture, room, time to spare, tiresomeness, vacant, weariness). (various references)

Korean

가을. (various references)

Malagasy

fararano. (various references)

Manx

Yn Fouyr. (various references)

Norwegian

høst (fall, harvest). (various references)

Occitan

auton, davalada. (various references)

Papiamen

herfst (fall). (various references)

Pig Latin

autumnay.(various references)

Polish

jesień (fall). (various references)

Portuguese

outono (fall), outonal (autumnal). (various references)

Romanian

toamnå (fall), toamnã (fall, fall of the year), toamna. (various references)

Russian

осень (fall). (various references)

Scottish

foghar (a tone, harvest, spring, the harvest time, vowel). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

jesenji (autumnal), jesen (fall). (various references)

Spanish

otoño (fall). (various references)

Swedish

höst (fall). (various references)

Tagalog

taglagas. (various references)

Turkish

sonbahar (autumnal, fall). (various references)

Turkmen

gьяz (fall). (various references)

Ukrainian

осінь, осінній (autumnal), період початку в'янення. (various references)

Welsh

hydref (fall, October). (various references)

Wolof

lolli. (various references)

Zulu

ikwindla (fall). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.
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Ancestral Language Translations: Autumn
Language Period Translations
Latin 500 BCE-Modern
autumni, autumnum, autumnus, Colchicum autumnale, Musca autumnalis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Derivations & Misspellings: Autumn
Derivations
Words beginning with "autumn": autumnal, autumnally, autumns. (additional references)

Misspellings
"Autumn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Akuzum, atumn, Aucun, Audouin, autamn, autem, Auten, autium, Autmn, automen, automn, automne, auttum, autum, autume, autumm, autumna, Autumnm, autunm, iotum, uatumn. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).
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Rhyming with "Autumn"
# of Phoneme Matches Pronunciation Word(s) rhyming with "autumn" (pronounced ô"tum)
3 -t u m accustom, ageratum, antemortem, arboretum, atom, Bantam, bottom, momentum, phantom, quantum, centum, custom, datum, dictum, ecosystem, item, rectum, sanctum, stratum, subsystem, symptom, system, totem, ultimatum, verbatim, victim.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.
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Anagrams: Autumn
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
Words within the letters "a-m-n-t-u-u"
-2 letters: aunt, maun, maut, tuna, unau.
-3 letters: amu, ant, man, mat, mun, mut, nam, nut, tam, tan, tau, tun, uta.
-4 letters: am, an, at, ma, mu, na, nu, ta, um, un, ut.
Words containing the letters "a-m-n-t-u-u"

+1 letter: autumns, quantum.

+2 letters: autumnal.

+3 letters: anthurium, tenaculum, umlauting.

+4 letters: anthuriums, argumentum, autoimmune, autonomous, autumnally, cumulating, cumulation, mansuetude, nasturtium, tenaculums, ultrahuman.

+5 letters: cumulations, funambulist, latifundium, mansuetudes, manufacture, mountainous, mutualizing, nasturtiums, outmaneuver, retinaculum, unambitious, unautomated, uncustomary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX
1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art 9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction 13. Quotations: Speeches
14. Usage Frequency
15. Names: Frequency
16. Names: Derived from 17. Expressions
18. Expressions: Internet
19. Translations: Modern
20. Translations: Ancient 21. Derivations
22. Rhymes
23. Anagrams
24. Bibliography


Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Evening	Autumn; fall, fall of the leaf; autumnal equinox; Indian summer, St. Luke's summer, St. Martin's summer.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	With autumn closing in (Night Moves; performing artist: BOB SEGER; writing credit: Bob Seger) I'm kicking through the Autumn leaves (Babylon; performing artist: David Gray) Your shining autumn, ocean crashing (Silver Springs; performing artist: Fleetwood Mac) It was summer, now it's autumn (Crystal; performing artist: New Order) No autumn breeze (I Just Called to Say I Love You; performing artist: Stevie Wonder)
Clever	True friends are like diamonds: precious and rare. False friends are like autumn leaves: scattered everywhere. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Hungry Autumn (1974) Spring and Autumn (1972) Appalachian Autumn (1969) At the Autumn River Camp: Part 2 (1967) Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Song Titles	AUTUMN LEAVES (performing artist: Roger Williams )
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Aztec Autumn (reference) Drums of Autumn (reference) Early Autumn (reference) Grace In Autumn - A Novel - (reference) The Divine Hours: Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Autumn in Minnesota Lake Country Relaxation Video (reference) Cheyenne Autumn (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Autumn Songs: Popular Works for Solo Piano (reference) Half Past Autumn Suite (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Autumn New Hamp. Screen Saver [DOWNLOAD] (reference) Autumn Photo CD (Jewel Case) (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	Lenox Autumn 13-Inch Gold-Banded Fine China Platter (reference) Lenox Autumn 20-Piece Gold-Banded Fine China Dinnerware Set (reference) Lenox Autumn Gold-Banded Fine China Open Vegetable Bowl (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Early morning fog and autumn colors reflected in the Patuxent River at Wayson's Corner. Credit: America's Coastlines.		"The Autumn Sunset". In: "The Heart of the Antarctic", Volume I, by E. H. Shackleton, 1909. P. 46. Library Call Number G149 S52. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Photo #2. Compare this cross-section to the previous image. Notice the greater width of the outer band. This is because the first cross-section was from a bluefin tuna caught in June while the second was from a tuna caught in November. The wider area represents a long period of high food intake during summer/ autumn months. These images are greatly magnified. Credit: Fisheries.		Autumn Royal, a new seedless grape. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Bob Nichols..
	Autumn Red peach. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga..		Autumn tundra, Seward Peninsula near Solomon. Credit: Nick Seifert.
	The sun illuminates turning colors on an autumn day near Hell's Half Acre Canyon. Credit: Christine Maxa.		Hiking party in the El Mal Pais recreation area, in the Autumn, heading toward a paleontological site in southeastern New Mexico. Credit: Unknown.
	Tetlin NWR Autumn Landscape. Credit: Alaska Image Library.		Autumn panorama, with log Church of Saint Nicholas (1846), southwest view, which was originally built near the site where Lake Baikal drains into the Angara River, Listvianka, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.


"Autumn Morning in Vermont" by Justin Heininger Commentary: "A morning picture taking in the Fall 2003. Mountains in the background are the Adirondacks in the State of New York."	"Autumn Colours" by Ian Myatt Commentary: "A hedgerow in autumn."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Author	Quotation
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
Robert Browning	Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Robertson Davies	He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
Shakespeare	For his bounty there was no winter to it; an autumn it was that grew more by reaping.
Whittier	The tents of autumn -- a mighty flower garden, blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
William Shakespeare	The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Winston S. Churchill	1946	The Agreement which was made at Yalta, to which I was a party, was extremely favorable to Soviet Russia, but it was made at a time when no one could say that the German war might not extend all through the summer and autumn of 1945 and when the Japanese war was expected to last for a further 18 months from the end of the German war. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	1963	This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1947)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	They could go there again with them in the autumn.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	A few yellow leaves, relics of the last autumn, chased one another joyously, and seemed to be playing the (r)gamin
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	They come rustling through the woods like autumn leaves, at least ten men to one loon
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Drip or trickle irrigation is used in the South, especially in citrus orchards subject to late summer and autumn drought. (references)
		The Government expects to raise a further $1.5 billion in the Autumn of 2000 by inviting companies to bid for new broadband fixed-link wireless licenses. (references)
		In late autumn 2000, Telekom Austria will be listed on the stock exchange and 25 percent of its shares capital is expected to be floated in a move designed to attract ATS 40 million ($ 2.7 million). (references)
Children	Moldova	The Minister of Education stated that more than 7,000 students did not show up for the first day of classes in the autumn; however, press reports cited a Ministry of Education estimate that 25 percent of students in rural schools did not attend school. (references)
Civil Liberties	Croatia	In the autumn, Parliament debated legislation on a third HRT channel; the legislation was designed to resolve the issue of selling or leasing the third channel. (references)
Economic History	Turkey	Each autumn, the Turkish National Franchise Association (UFRAD) organizes a franchising fair that attracts much interest. (references)
Minorities	Croatia	In the wake of the autumn 2000 termination of the OSCE police monitoring group in the Danubian region (and its replacement with a smaller civilian unit), the police continued to respond appropriately to law and order issues, although some NGO's continued to express concern that ethnic Serbs were reluctant to report ethnically-motivated incidents to authorities. (references)
Political Economy	Peru	Municipal elections are scheduled for the autumn of 2002. (references)
Trade	Uzbekistan	In addition, tariffs, previously assessed on the soum value of the goods at the commercial exchange rate, were now assessed on the value at the new rate, which increased tariffs 2.7-fold. Even at the new rate, however, the government continued to squeeze consumer goods import quotas: importers with quotas of $100,000 or less lost their quotas, and the government continued through the autumn to prune the ranks of the select few remaining quotaholders. (references)
Women	Croatia	Legislation passed in autumn 2000 created a specific Penal Code provision for family violence to replace inadequate existing provisions, and to direct that perpetrators of family violence, in addition to being punished, be placed under supervision and receive psychiatric treatment. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	The elimination last autumn of overtime work for nearly all Federal employees meant a sharp cut in their incomes.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.97%	3,913	2,501
Noun (proper)	0.03%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3,914	N/A

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Autumn	First name Female	17,000	660
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

"Autumn" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the autumn".

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "autumn".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Autumn	Male, Female	English	The autumn
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "autumn": autumn crocus ♦ autumn darkness ♦ autumn day ♦ autumn equinox ♦ autumn fry ♦ autumn gale ♦ autumn leaf ♦ autumn overturn ♦ autumn ploughing ♦ autumn pumpkin ♦ autumn season ♦ autumn sneezeweed ♦ autumn term ♦ autumn wood ♦ early autumn ♦ in the autumn ♦ in the late autumn ♦ last autumn ♦ late autumn ♦ the autumn of life ♦ the reds and the yellows of autumn ♦ this autumn. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "autumn": autumn-blazing, autumn-born, autumn-coloured, autumn-drilled, autumn-flowering, autumn-if, autumn-planted, Autumn-putting-to-bed, autumn-sown, autumn-sown grain, autumn-spring, autumn-tinged, autumn-winter.
	Ending with "autumn": mid-autumn.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
autumn	1,346	autumn olive	37
autumn leaf	636	autumn scene	37
art autumn	578	ash autumn	35
from autumn to ash	454	autumn jade.com	32
autumn england new	443	autumn wedding invitation	32
autumn austin	412	autumn wood	30
autumn heart in	365	autumn colors	28
autumn jade	312	autumn wallpaper	28
autumn in new england	245	autumn leaf lyrics	27
ash autumn from lyrics	197	autumn emilie	25
autumn wedding	120	autumn cake wedding	25
autumn haze	90	autumn clematis sweet	24
autumn flower	48	autumn photo	24
autumn blaze maple	46	ash autumn from guitar tab	22
mostly autumn	45	autumn purple ash	22
ash autumn from tab	45	autumn tree	22
autumn in new york	44	austin autumn movie	22
autumn james	42	autumn story	20
autumn joy sedum	41	autumn drama heart in korean	20
autumn picture	40	autumn gallery	20
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "autumn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		herfs (fall). (various references)

Albanian		vjeshtak (autumnal), vjeshtë (fall), vjeshta. (various references)

Arabic		‏فصل الخريف, ‏خريفي (autumnal, fall), ‏خريف العمر, ‏الكهولة (middle age). (various references)

Basque		udazken. (various references)

Bulgarian		есенен (autumnal), есен (fall). (various references)

Chinese		秋天 . (various references)

Cornish		Kynyaf. (various references)

Croatian		jesen. (various references)

Czech		podzim (autopsy, fall, the sear and yellow leaf). (various references)

Danish		høst (fall, harvest), efterår (fall). (various references)

Dutch		najaars-, herfst-. (various references)

Esperanto		aŭtuno, aŭtuna, a—tuno. (various references)

Estonian		sügis. (various references)

Faeroese		heyst (fall). (various references)

Farsi		پاءیز (Fall), سومین دوره زندگی , زمان رسیدن ونزول چیزی , زردی (Yellow), خزان (Fall), اخرین قسمت (Tagend), دوران کمال , برگ ریزان . (various references)

Finnish		syksy (fall). (various references)

French		automne, automnal (autumnal). (various references)

Frisian		hjest (fall). (various references)

German		Herbst (fall, harvest), herbstlich (autumnal). (various references)

Greek		φθινόπωρο (autumn = fall, fall). (various references)

Haitian Creole		otòn. (various references)

Hebrew		שלכת (effoliation, fall), סתו (fall). (various references)

Hungarian		õszi (fall), õsz (fall, fall/autumn, grey, grey headed, greyish, hoary, white-headed), ősz (fall, frosted, grizzled, hoar, hoary, white), ôsz (fall). (various references)

Icelandic		haust (fall). (various references)

Indonesian		musim rontok (fall), musim gugur. (various references)

Irish		fómhar (harvest). (various references)

Italian		autunno (fall). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		秋 (fall). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くさがれ (withering of the grass), しゅうじつ (a weekday, all day, autumn day), しゅうき (autumnair, bad smell, closing, cycle, death anniversary, ending, fall, period, religious regulations, stink), あき (emptiness, fall, former name of Hiroshima prefecture, room, time to spare, tiresomeness, vacant, weariness). (various references)

Korean		가을. (various references)

Malagasy		fararano. (various references)

Manx		Yn Fouyr. (various references)

Norwegian		høst (fall, harvest). (various references)

Occitan		auton, davalada. (various references)

Papiamen		herfst (fall). (various references)

Pig Latin		autumnay.(various references)

Polish		jesień (fall). (various references)

Portuguese		outono (fall), outonal (autumnal). (various references)

Romanian		toamnå (fall), toamnã (fall, fall of the year), toamna. (various references)

Russian		осень (fall). (various references)

Scottish		foghar (a tone, harvest, spring, the harvest time, vowel). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		jesenji (autumnal), jesen (fall). (various references)

Spanish		otoño (fall). (various references)

Swedish		höst (fall). (various references)

Tagalog		taglagas. (various references)

Turkish		sonbahar (autumnal, fall). (various references)

Turkmen		gьяz (fall). (various references)

Ukrainian		осінь, осінній (autumnal), період початку в'янення. (various references)

Welsh		hydref (fall, October). (various references)

Wolof		lolli. (various references)

Zulu		ikwindla (fall). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	autumni, autumnum, autumnus, Colchicum autumnale, Musca autumnalis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "autumn": autumnal, autumnally, autumns. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Autumn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Akuzum, atumn, Aucun, Audouin, autamn, autem, Auten, autium, Autmn, automen, automn, automne, auttum, autum, autume, autumm, autumna, Autumnm, autunm, iotum, uatumn. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "autumn" (pronounced ô"tum)
3	-t u m	accustom, ageratum, antemortem, arboretum, atom, Bantam, bottom, momentum, phantom, quantum, centum, custom, datum, dictum, ecosystem, item, rectum, sanctum, stratum, subsystem, symptom, system, totem, ultimatum, verbatim, victim.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-m-n-t-u-u"
	-2 letters: aunt, maun, maut, tuna, unau.
	-3 letters: amu, ant, man, mat, mun, mut, nam, nut, tam, tan, tau, tun, uta.
	-4 letters: am, an, at, ma, mu, na, nu, ta, um, un, ut.
	Words containing the letters "a-m-n-t-u-u"
	+1 letter: autumns, quantum.
	+2 letters: autumnal.
	+3 letters: anthurium, tenaculum, umlauting.
	+4 letters: anthuriums, argumentum, autoimmune, autonomous, autumnally, cumulating, cumulation, mansuetude, nasturtium, tenaculums, ultrahuman.
	+5 letters: cumulations, funambulist, latifundium, mansuetudes, manufacture, mountainous, mutualizing, nasturtiums, outmaneuver, retinaculum, unambitious, unautomated, uncustomary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Emma

Austen, Jane

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

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Harry S. Truman

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