wintering Definition

winter
noun

1. The coldest season of the year, coming between autumn and spring, in the Northern hemisphere from November or December to February or March.

Form: Winter (also)
2. astron.
The time from the winter solstice in December to the spring equinox (see under equinox) in March.
3. literary
A year, especially in reference to a person's age.
Example: fifty winters
Form: winters (often)

adj

1. Referring, relating or belonging to winter.

Example: a winter dish
2. Said of plants, crops and fruit, etc: sown in autumn so as to be reaped in the following winter.

verb wintered, wintering

intr
1. To spend the winter in a specified place, usually other than one's normal home.
2. To feed and keep (animals) through the winter.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon.