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au·tum·nal       [aw-tuhm-nl] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.belonging to or suggestive of autumn; produced or gathered in autumn: autumnal colors.
2.past maturity or middle life.
[Origin: 1630–40; < L autumnālis. See autumn, -al1]

—Related forms
au·tum··nal·ly, adverb
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au·tumn       (ô'təm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The season of the year between summer and winter, lasting from the autumnal equinox to the winter solstice and from September to December in the Northern Hemisphere; fall.
  2. A period of maturity verging on decline.

adj.  
  1. Of, having to do with, occurring in, or appropriate to the season of autumn: autumn foliage; autumn harvests.
  2. Grown during the season of autumn: autumn crops.


[Middle English autumpne, from Old French autompne, from Latin autumnus.]

au·tum'nal (ô-tŭm'nəl) adj., au·tum'nal·ly adv.
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autumnal

adjective
1. of or characteristic of or occurring in autumn; "the autumnal equinox"; "autumnal fruits" [ant: serrate, vernal, summery] 
2. characteristic of late maturity verging on decline; "a serene autumnal mood" 

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Autumnal

Au*tum"nal\, a. [L. auctumnalis, autumnalis: cf. F. automnal.]

1. Of, belonging to, or peculiar to, autumn; as, an autumnal tint; produced or gathered in autumn; as, autumnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant.

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa. --Milton.

2. Past the middle of life; in the third stage.

An autumnal matron. --Hawthorne.

Autumnal equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator, as it proceeds southward, or when it passes the autumnal point.

Autumnal point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra.

Autumnal signs, the signs Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, through which the sun passes between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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