Autumnal vs. Autumn — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Autumnal and Autumn
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Autumnal
Autumnal is the seventh full-length album by the Spanish power metal band Dark Moor. The recording of this album was announced in early 2008, with constant updates posted on their website since then.
Autumn
Autumn, also known as fall in North American English, is one of the four temperate seasons. Outside the tropics, autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere), when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools considerably.
Autumnal
The season of the year between summer and winter, during which the weather becomes cooler and many plants become dormant, extending in the Northern Hemisphere from the autumnal equinox to the winter solstice and popularly considered to include the months of September, October, and November; fall. In the Southern Hemisphere autumn includes March, April, and May.
Autumn
The season after summer and before winter, in the northern hemisphere from September to November and in the southern hemisphere from March to May
Europe can expect warmer summers and wetter autumns
The countryside is ablaze with colour in autumn
Autumn leaves
He was in the autumn of his life
Autumnal
A period of maturity verging on decline.
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Autumn
The season of the year between summer and winter, during which the weather becomes cooler and many plants become dormant, extending in the Northern Hemisphere from the autumnal equinox to the winter solstice and popularly considered to include the months of September, October, and November; fall. In the Southern Hemisphere autumn includes March, April, and May.
Autumnal
Relating to or occurring in autumn
Autumn foliage.
Autumn harvests.
Autumn
A period of maturity verging on decline.
Autumnal
Grown during the season of autumn
Autumn crops.
Autumn
Relating to or occurring in autumn
Autumn foliage.
Autumn harvests.
Autumnal
Of or relating to autumn.
Autumn
Grown during the season of autumn
Autumn crops.
Autumnal
Past the middle of life; in the third stage.
Autumn
Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves; typically regarded as being from September 24 to December 22 in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere.
Autumnal
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 brooksIn Vallombrosa.
Autumn
The time period when someone or something is past its prime.
Autumnal
Past the middle of life; in the third stage.
An autumnal matron.
Autumn
(fashion) A person with relatively dark hair and a warm skin tone, seen as best suited to certain colours in clothing.
Autumnal
Of or characteristic of or occurring in autumn;
The autumnal equinox
Autumnal fruits
The vernal equinox
Suffered severe wintry weather
Brown wintry grasses
Autumn
Of or relating to autumn; autumnal
Autumn leaves
Autumnal
Characteristic of late maturity verging on decline;
A serene autumnal mood
Autumn
(intransitive) To spend the autumn (in a particular place).
Autumn
To undergo the changes associated with autumn, such as leaves changing color and falling from trees.
Autumn
The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.
Autumn
The harvest or fruits of autumn.
Autumn
The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.
Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor.
Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge.
Autumn
The season when the leaves fall from the trees;
In the fall of 1973
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