Summer vs. Sumer — What's the Difference?

Summer is the hottest of the four temperate seasons, falling after spring and before autumn. At or around the summer solstice (about 3 days before Midsummer Day), the earliest sunrise and latest sunset occurs, the days are longest and the nights are shortest, with day length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice.

Sumer () is the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC. It is also one of the first civilizations in the world, along with Ancient Egypt, Caral-Supe civilization, the Indus Valley Civilization, the Minoan civilization and Ancient China. Living along the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates, Sumerian farmers grew an abundance of grain and other crops, the surplus from which enabled them to form urban settlements.

The warmest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from June to August and in the southern hemisphere from December to February

An area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC

A horizontal bearing beam, especially one supporting joists or rafters.

Spend the summer in a particular place

In the Northern Hemisphere, the usually warmest season of the year, occurring between spring and autumn and constituting June, July, and August. In the Southern Hemisphere, it constitutes December, January, and February.

The season extending from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox.

A period of fruition, fulfillment, happiness, or beauty.

A year

A heavy horizontal timber that serves as a supporting beam, especially for the floor above.

A lintel.

A large, heavy stone usually set on the top of a column or pilaster to support an arch or lintel.

To lodge or keep during the summer

To pass the summer

Relating to or occurring in summer

Grown during the season of summer

One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as being from June 21 to September 22 or 23 in parts of the USA, the months of June, July and August in the United Kingdom and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.

Year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.

Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.

(architecture) A horizontal beam supporting a building.

(obsolete) A pack-horse.

A person who sums.

A machine or algorithm that sums.

(intransitive) To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.

One who sums; one who casts up an account.

A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree.

The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.

To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland.

To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.

The warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox;

Spend the summer;