'autumn' is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to refer to the season of the year between summer and winter, usually in the Northern Hemisphere. You can use it anytime you'd like to talk about the season of Autumn. For example: "The leaves have all turned golden as we enter the beautiful autumn season."
Nobody has that sort of conversation after the launch of Debenhams' autumn knitwear range.
Three-quarters of the world's heather moorland is found in Britain; the heather flowers purple in August, the bracken shines bronze in the autumn and the moors are dusted white with snow in midwinter.
Farmers had a vested interest in killing foxes, which preyed on their livestock; a hobby rider out for an enjoyable day's riding in the autumn sunshine doesn't really care what is being pursued, a fox or a scented rag.
Here, every Saturday, Jane sells her own fruit, vegetables and, in autumn, meat, and the products of a few carefully chosen biodynamic growers.
Michael Moore, who had been sacked as Scotland secretary a few months earlier in the autumn of 2013, says: "Tightening the position from 'highly unlikely' was a mistake.
It's known as a winter sports destination, but savvy travellers head to Switzerland's Engadine in autumn, when the larches turn golden, the skies are ice blue and there's a dusting of snow on the mountaintops.
Yet there has been strong criticism of Miliband by some members of the Jewish community for his stance on Israel and, in particular, for backing a vote to recognise a Palestinian state last autumn.
While more than 100,000 people turned out for rallies at the protests' peak this autumn, the numbers of demonstrators have sharply dwindled and public support for the movement has waned.
A long-time member, Peter Rücker, who watched Lubitz learn to fly, said he had been upbeat when he returned to the club last autumn to renew his glider pilot's licence.
The momentum for change on abortion laws has intensified since the Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar died from blood poisoning after a Galway hospital refused to terminate her pregnancy last autumn.
