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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 au·tumn /ˈɔtəm/
 秋季,秋天;晚年,暮年

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Au·tumn n.
 1. 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.
 Note:In England, according to Johnson, autumn popularly comprises August, September, and October. In the southern hemisphere, the autumn corresponds to our spring.
 2. The harvest or fruits of autumn.
 3. The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.
    Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor.   --Fuller.
    Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge.   --Wordsworth.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 autumn
      n : the season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall
          of 1973" [syn: fall]