English Dictionary

Indian summer

/ˈɪn.dɪ.ən ˈsʌ.mə(ɹ)/

noun

A stretch of sunny and warm, often hazy, days during late autumn. / (figuratively) The late autumn of life; a late flowering of activity before old age.

We had a beautiful Indian summer this year.

意味（1）

A stretch of sunny and warm, often hazy, days during late autumn.

Then a severe frost succeeds which prepares it to receive the voluminous coat of snow which is soon to follow; though it is often preceded by a short interval of smoke and mildness, called the Indian Summer.

意味（2）

(figuratively) The late autumn of life; a late flowering of activity before old age.

Thus, while at times before our eye / The clouds about the present part, / And, smiling through them, round us lie / Soft hues of Memory's evening sky – / The Indian summer of the heart, / In secret sympathies of mind, / In founts of feeling which retain / Their pure fresh flow, we yet may find / Our early dreams not wholly vain!

意味（3）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Indian, summer.