1350-1400;Middle Englishsomertime. See summer1, time
Examples from the web for summertime
No one wants higher summertime temperatures or more oppressive heat waves.
summertime peak demand is at dinner time when solar levels are way down.
It turns out, however, that in hot climates the summertime benefit greatly outweighs the wintertime penalty.
Fuel ethanol is practical here as a summertime fuel, especially, and also as an agricultural machinery fuel.
Ants seem common and ubiquitous, especially at summertime picnics.
Because they've less distance to travel, they tend to arrive home first in the summertime and to live in prime forest-edge spots.
summertime is here again, and with it comes more music to move you.
They were cool even in summertime, and their red-cheeked salesgirls even wore sweaters under their white coats.
Redolent, she thinks-Keatsian word-redolent of summertime and summer ease.
It was a planetary summertime, and the living was easy.
British Dictionary definitions for summertime
summertime
/ˈsʌməˌtaɪm/
noun
1.
the period or season of summer
Word Origin and History for summertime
n.
late 14c., somer tyme, from summer (n.1) + time (n.). Earlier were summertide (mid-13c.), sumeres tid (late Old English). In Britain, as two words, with reference to what in U.S. is daylight saving time, recorded from 1916.
summertime in Culture
“Summertime” definition
One of the best-known songs of George Gershwin; it comes from the operaPorgy and Bess and begins, “Summertime, and the living is easy&ellipsis4;”