Indian summer

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Indian summer

1. A period of mild weather occurring in late autumn.

2. A pleasant, tranquil, or flourishing period occurring near the end of something: the Indian summer of the administration.

Indian summer

1. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a period of unusually settled warm weather after the end of summer proper

2. a period of ease and tranquillity or of renewed productivity towards the end of a person's life or of an epoch See also Saint Martin's summer

[originally US: probably so named because it was first noted in regions occupied by American Indians]

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Noun

Indian summer - a period of unusually warm weather in the autumn

Saint Martin's summer

period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"

autumn, fall - the season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973"

Translations

Indian summer n (fig) → estate f di San Martino

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