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Autumn (fall)

Temperate season
Leaves often turn orange and fall off from trees in the autumn.
Northern temperate zone
Astronomical season	23 September – 22 December
Meteorological season	1 September – 30 November
Solar (Celtic) season	1 August – 31 October
Southern temperate zone
Astronomical season	21 March – 21 June
Meteorological season	1 March – 31 May
Solar (Celtic) season	1 February – 30 April
Summer Spring Autumn Winter

Autumn, also known as fall in American English and Canadian English,^[1] is one of the four temperate seasons on Earth. Outside the tropics, autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere). Autumn is the season when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools considerably. Day length decreases and night length increases as the season progresses until the Winter Solstice in December (Northern Hemisphere) and June (Southern Hemisphere). One of its main features in temperate climates is the striking change in colour for the leaves of deciduous trees as they prepare to shed.

Date definitions[edit]

Some cultures regard the autumnal equinox as «mid-autumn», while others with a longer temperature lag treat the equinox as the start of autumn.^[2] In the English-speaking world of high latitude countries, autumn traditionally began with Lammas Day and ended around Hallowe’en, the approximate mid-points between midsummer, the autumnal equinox, and midwinter. Meteorologists (and Australia^[3][4] and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere)^[5][6] use a definition based on Gregorian calendar months, with autumn being September, October, and November in the northern hemisphere,^[7] and March, April, and May in the southern hemisphere.

In the higher latitude countries in the Northern Hemisphere, autumn traditionally starts with the September equinox (21 to 24 September)^[8] and ends with the winter solstice (21 or 22 December).^[9] Popular culture in the United States associates Labor Day, the first Monday in September, as the end of summer and the start of autumn; certain summer traditions, such as wearing white, are discouraged after that date.^[10] As daytime and nighttime temperatures decrease, trees change colour and then shed their leaves.^[11]

Under the traditional East Asian solar term system, autumn starts on or around 8 August and ends on or about 7 November. In Ireland, the autumn months according to the national meteorological service, Met Éireann, are September, October, and November.^[12] However, according to the Irish Calendar, which is based on ancient Gaelic traditions, autumn lasts throughout the months of August, September, and October, or possibly a few days later, depending on tradition. In the Irish language, September is known as Meán Fómhair («middle of autumn») and October as Deireadh Fómhair («end of autumn»).^[13][14] Persians celebrate the beginning of the autumn as Mehregan to honor Mithra (Mehr).

Etymology[edit]

Autumnal scene with yellow, orange, and red leaves

Sound of leaves on trees and fallen on the ground

The word autumn () is derived from Latin autumnus, archaic auctumnus, possibly from the ancient Etruscan root autu- and has within it connotations of the passing of the year.^[15] Alternative etymologies include Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewǵ— («cold») or *h₂sows— («dry»).^[16]

After the Greek era, the word continued to be used as the Old French word autompne (automne in modern French) or autumpne in Middle English,^[17] and was later normalised to the original Latin. In the Medieval period, there are rare examples of its use as early as the 12th century, but by the 16th century, it was in common use.

Before the 16th century, harvest was the term usually used to refer to the season, as it is common in other West Germanic languages to this day (cf. Dutch herfst, German Herbst, and Scots hairst). However, as more people gradually moved from working the land to living in towns, the word harvest lost its reference to the time of year and came to refer only to the actual activity of reaping, and autumn, as well as fall, began to replace it as a reference to the season.^{[18][19][better source needed]}

The alternative word fall for the season traces its origins to old Germanic languages. The exact derivation is unclear, with the Old English fiæll or feallan and the Old Norse fall all being possible candidates. However, these words all have the meaning «to fall from a height» and are clearly derived either from a common root or from each other. The term came to denote the season in 16th-century England, a contraction of Middle English expressions like «fall of the leaf» and «fall of the year». Compare the origin of spring from «spring of the leaf» and «spring of the year».^[20]

During the 17th century, Englishmen began emigrating to the new North American colonies, and the settlers took the English language with them. While the term fall gradually became nearly obsolete in Britain, it became the more common term in North America.^[21]

The name backend, a once common name for the season in Northern England, has today been largely replaced by the name autumn.^[22]

Associations[edit]

Harvest[edit]

Association with the transition from warm to cold weather, and its related status as the season of the primary harvest, has dominated its themes and popular images. In Western cultures, personifications of autumn are usually pretty, well-fed females adorned with fruits, vegetables and grains that ripen at this time. Many cultures feature autumnal harvest festivals, often the most important on their calendars.

Still-extant echoes of these celebrations are found in the autumn Thanksgiving holiday of the United States and Canada, and the Jewish Sukkot holiday with its roots as a full-moon harvest festival of «tabernacles» (living in outdoor huts around the time of harvest). There are also the many festivals celebrated by indigenous peoples of the Americas tied to the harvest of ripe foods gathered in the wild, the Chinese Mid-Autumn or Moon festival, and many others. The predominant mood of these autumnal celebrations is a gladness for the fruits of the earth mixed with a certain melancholy linked to the imminent arrival of harsh weather.

This view is presented in English poet John Keats’ poem To Autumn, where he describes the season as a time of bounteous fecundity, a time of ‘mellow fruitfulness’.

In North America, while most foods are harvested during the autumn, foods usually associated with the season include pumpkins (which are integral parts of both Thanksgiving and Halloween) and apples, which are used to make the seasonal beverage apple cider.

Melancholia[edit]

Autumn, especially in poetry, has often been associated with melancholia. The possibilities and opportunities of summer are gone, and the chill of winter is on the horizon. Skies turn grey, the amount of usable daylight drops rapidly, and many people turn inward, both physically and mentally.^[23] It has been referred to as an unhealthy season.^[24]

Similar examples may be found in Irish poet W.B. Yeats’ poem The Wild Swans at Coole where the maturing season that the poet observes symbolically represents his own ageing self. Like the natural world that he observes, he too has reached his prime and now must look forward to the inevitability of old age and death. French poet Paul Verlaine’s «Chanson d’automne» («Autumn Song») is likewise characterised by strong, painful feelings of sorrow. Keats’ To Autumn, written in September 1819, echoes this sense of melancholic reflection but also emphasises the lush abundance of the season. The song «Autumn Leaves», based on the French song «Les Feuilles mortes», uses the melancholic atmosphere of the season and the end of summer as a metaphor for the mood of being separated from a loved one.^[25]

Halloween[edit]

Autumn is associated with Halloween (influenced by Samhain, a Celtic autumn festival),^[26] and with it a widespread marketing campaign that promotes it. The Celtic people also used this time to celebrate the harvest with a time of feasting. At the same time though, it was a celebration of death as well. Crops were harvested, livestock were butchered, and Winter was coming.^[27]

Halloween, 31 October, is in autumn in the northern hemisphere. Television, film, book, costume, home decoration, and confectionery businesses use this time of year to promote products closely associated with such a holiday, with promotions going from late August or early September to 31 October, since their themes rapidly lose strength once the holiday ends, and advertising starts concentrating on Christmas.

Other associations[edit]

In some parts of the northern hemisphere, autumn has a strong association with the end of summer holiday and the start of a new school year, particularly for children in primary and secondary education. «Back to School» advertising and preparations usually occurs in the weeks leading to the beginning of autumn.

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated in Canada, in the United States, in some of the Caribbean islands and in Liberia. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada, on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States (where it is commonly regarded as the start of the Christmas and holiday season), and around the same part of the year in other places. Similarly named festival holidays occur in Germany and Japan.

Television stations and networks, particularly in North America, traditionally begin their regular seasons in their autumn, with new series and new episodes of existing series debuting mostly during late September or early October (series that debut outside the autumn season are usually known as mid-season replacements). A sweeps period takes place in November to measure Nielsen Ratings.

American football is played almost exclusively in the autumn months; at the high school level, seasons run from late August through early November, with some playoff games and holiday rivalry contests being played as late as Thanksgiving. In many American states, the championship games take place in early December. College football’s regular season runs from September through November, while the main professional circuit, the National Football League, plays from September through to early January.

Summer sports, such as association football (in Northern America, East Asia, Argentina, and South Africa), Canadian football, stock car racing, tennis, golf, cricket, and professional baseball, wrap up their seasons in early to late autumn; Major League Baseball’s championship World Series is popularly known as the «Fall Classic».^[28] (Amateur baseball is usually finished by August.) Likewise, professional winter sports, such as ice hockey and basketball, and most leagues of association football in Europe, are in the early stages of their seasons during autumn; American college basketball and college ice hockey play teams outside their athletic conferences during the late autumn before their in-conference schedules begin in winter.

The Christian religious holidays of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day are observed in autumn in the Northern hemisphere. Easter falls in autumn in the southern hemisphere.

The secular celebration of International Workers’ Day also falls in autumn in the southern hemisphere.

Since 1997, Autumn has been one of the top 100 names for girls in the United States.^[29]

In Indian mythology, autumn is considered to be the preferred season for the goddess of learning Saraswati, who is also known by the name of «goddess of autumn» (Sharada).

In Asian mysticism, Autumn is associated with the element of metal, and subsequently with the colour white, the White Tiger of the West, and death and mourning.

Tourism[edit]

Although colour change in leaves occurs wherever deciduous trees are found, coloured autumn foliage is noted in various regions of the world: most of North America, Eastern Asia (including China, Korea, and Japan), Europe, southeast, south, and part of the midwest of Brazil,^[30][31] the forest of Patagonia, eastern Australia and New Zealand’s South Island.

Eastern Canada and New England are famous for their autumnal foliage,^[32][33] and this attracts major tourism (worth billions of US dollars) for the regions.^[34][35]

Views of autumn[edit]

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  Maple leaves changing colour by a creek.

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  All Saints’ Day at a cemetery in Sanok—flowers and lit candles are placed to honor the memory of deceased relatives.

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Allegories of autumn in art[edit]

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  Autumn (1871), by Currier & Ives

See also[edit]

• Autumn in New England
• Diwali

References[edit]

External links[edit]

’Tis the time of colorful foliage, crisp air, the first frost, and pumpkin spice. It’s many people’s favorite season—and it’s the only one with more than one commonly used name. But what to call it—autumn or fall? And what came first?

Prepare for the dawn of sweater weather with some insights into the origins of fall and autumn—and another, even older name for the season.

⚡ Quick summary

The names autumn and fall are both commonly used. Autumn is thought to be slightly older, appearing in the 1300s, with the word fall first appearing around the 1500s in reference to leaves falling off trees. An even earlier name for the season is harvest.

Where does the word autumn come from?

The word autumn comes from the French autompne, from the Latin autumnus, whose deeper roots are obscure. It’s first recorded in English as early as the late 1300s—notably, both Chaucer and Shakespeare used it in their works.

Today, speakers of American English commonly use both fall and autumn to refer to the season, though fall became more common in the US by the late 1800s. Speakers of British English largely use autumn or the autumn season.

Why is it called fall?

Recorded use of the word fall as the name of the third season of the year comes from as early as the 1500s. The name is thought to originate in the phrase the fall of the leaf, in reference to the time of year when deciduous trees shed their leaves. The name of its inverse season, spring, is thought to come from the phrase spring of the leaf—the time when everything is blossoming.

The name fall was commonly used in England until about the end of the 1600s, when it was ousted by autumn.

The multiple senses of the word fall come in handy for the helpful reminder “Spring Forward, Fall Back,” which serves as a mnemonic about how to set our clocks for daylight-saving time.

When is fall?

In the Northern Hemisphere, fall is roughly between August and November, technically lasting from the autumnal equinox (often referred to as the September equinox because it occurs around the end of September) until the winter solstice (around the end of December). In the Southern Hemisphere, where the seasons are flipped, fall is roughly between the end of March and the end of June.

Discover all the facts about equinox vs. solstice here.

Another (even older) name for fall and autumn season

The earliest known name for the season in English is harvest. It comes from the Old English word hærfest, of Germanic origin, perhaps with an underlying, ancient sense of “picking, plucking” (as in, picking fruits to harvest them).

Eventually, the use of harvest as a name for the season fell out of use, instead becoming used for the period when ripened crops are harvested—gathered for processing and winter storage. The word harvest can also refer collectively to those ripened, gathered crops themselves.

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Autumn, also known as fall in North American English, is one of the four temperate seasons. Outside the tropics, autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September or March. Autumn is the season when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools considerably.

What does name autumn mean?

Autumn is a feminine given name derived from the Latin word autumnus, meaning «fall» or «autumn».

What things represent autumn?

Symbols of Autumn

Why is fall called autumn?

«Autumn» came from the Latin word «autumnus,» with the root of the word having connotations regarding «the passing of the year.» The term «fall» was likely a deviation from the Old English words «fiaell» and «feallan,» both of which mean «to fall from a height.» It is assumed that this new name for the season was …

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Contents

• 1 What does the Latin word autumn mean?
• 2 What language did the word autumn originate from?
• 3 How did fall get its name?
• 4 What’s another name for autumn?
• 5 Why is fall called fall and autumn?
• 6 What is the meaning of the Greek word autumn?
• 7 When did autumn start being called fall?
• 8 What color is autumn?
• 9 What does autumn mean in Hebrew?
• 10 What is the Latin name for winter?
• 11 What does autumn symbolize?
• 12 What does fall mean biblically?
• 13 What is winter in Hebrew?
• 14 What is the Hebrew word for season?
• 15 What does autumn mean to Christians?
• 16 Is autumn a biblical name?
• 17 What was the first sin called?
• 18 What are the 4 seasons in the Bible?

The word autumn (/ˈɔːtəm/) is derived from Latin autumnus, archaic auctumnus, possibly from the ancient Etruscan root autu- and has within it connotations of the passing of the year.

What language did the word autumn originate from?

Both ‘autumn’ and ‘fall’ originated in Britain. So why is ‘fall’ primarily used in America? The older of the two words is autumn, which first came into English in the 1300s from the Latin word autumnus.

How did fall get its name?

The name is thought to originate in the phrase the fall of the leaf, in reference to the time of year when deciduous trees shed their leaves. … The name fall was commonly used in England until about the end of the 1600s, when it was ousted by autumn.

What’s another name for autumn?

What is another word for autumn?

equinox	fall
harvest	season
autumnal equinox	Indian summer
back end	period
time	spell

Why is fall called fall and autumn?

“Autumn” came from the Latin word “autumnus,” with the root of the word having connotations regarding “the passing of the year.” The term “fall” was likely a deviation from the Old English words “fiaell” and “feallan,” both of which mean “to fall from a height.” It is assumed that this new name for the season was …

What is the meaning of the Greek word autumn?

autumn (n.)

Harvest (n.) … Many “autumn” words mean “end, end of summer,” or “harvest.” Compare Greek phthinoporon “waning of summer;” Lithuanian ruduo “autumn,” from rudas “reddish,” in reference to leaves; Old Irish fogamar, literally “under-winter.”

When did autumn start being called fall?

Calling the season autumn first occurred in English in the 12th century, though was a rarity until around the 14th century. It then began to pick up steam and became common in the 16th century—about the same time “fall” popped up as the name for the season.

What color is autumn?

The True Autumn palette contains warm greens, golden yellows, orangey reds and lots of golden browns. The colours are dense, rich and warm. Autumn is a season of muted colours.

What does autumn mean in Hebrew?

Some places in the world have four distinct seasons: summer, fall, winter, spring. … Thus the word for autumn – סְתָו (stahv) – is a relatively new one in Hebrew. The word appears in the biblical שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים – Song of Songs (sheer hah-shee-REEM), but there it refers to the winter.

What is the Latin name for winter?

Names of seasons in various languages

	Spring	Winter
Icelandic	vor	vetur
Irish	earrach	geimhreadh
Italian	primavera	inverno
Latin	ver	hiems

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What does autumn symbolize?

What are the traditional symbolic meanings of autumn? In fall, the growing cycle gives us ripeness and maturity. The harvest is associated with abundance, prosperity and wealth. … If spring represents new birth and childhood, and summer symbolizes youth, autumn represents adulthood and maturity.

What does fall mean biblically?

The fall of man, the fall of Adam, or simply the Fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience. The doctrine of the Fall comes from a biblical interpretation of Genesis, chapters 1-3.

What is winter in Hebrew?

חורף – winter – Hebrew conjugation tables.

What is the Hebrew word for season?

What does autumn mean to Christians?

Autumn is a beautiful season that signifies both the year coming to an end and the approach of the New Year, when the calendar turns and we step forward in time.

Is autumn a biblical name?

Autumn is baby unisex name mainly popular in Christian religion and its main origin is English. Autumn name meanings is Born in the fall autum.

What was the first sin called?

Adam and Eve transmitted to their descendants human nature wounded by their own first sin and hence deprived of original holiness and justice; this deprivation is called “original sin”.

What are the 4 seasons in the Bible?

A time to tear apart and a time to sew together; A time to be silent and a time to speak. A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace.”

Synonyms:

For other uses, see Autumn (disambiguation).

«Fall» redirects here. For other uses, see Fall (disambiguation).

Autumn, also known as fall in American and Canadian English,^[1] is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere), when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools down considerably. One of its main features is the shedding of leaves from deciduous trees.

Some cultures regard the autumnal equinox as «mid-autumn», while others with a longer temperature lag treat it as the start of autumn.^[2] Meteorologists (and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere)^[3] use a definition based on Gregorian calendar months, with autumn being September, October, and November in the northern hemisphere,^[4] and March, April, and May in the southern hemisphere.

In North America, autumn is usually considered to start with the September equinox (21 to 24 September)^[5] and end with the winter solstice (21 or 22 December).^[6] Popular culture in North America associates Labor Day, the first Monday in September, as the end of summer and the start of autumn; certain summer traditions, such as wearing white, are discouraged after that date.^[7] As daytime and nighttime temperatures decrease, trees shed their leaves.^[8] In traditional East Asian solar term, autumn starts on or around 8 August and ends on or about 7 November. In Ireland, the autumn months according to the national meteorological service, Met Éireann, are September, October and November.^[9] However, according to the Irish Calendar, which is based on ancient Gaelic traditions, autumn lasts throughout the months of August, September and October, or possibly a few days later, depending on tradition^{[citation needed]}. In Australia and New Zealand, autumn officially begins on 1 March and ends on 31 May.^[10] In these countries, Autumn is associated with events such as Easterand Anzac day.

Etymology

The word autumn comes from the ancient Etruscan root autu- and has within it connotations of the passing of the year.^[11] It was borrowed by the neighbouring Romans, and became the Latin word autumnus.^[12] After the Roman era, the word continued to be used as the Old French word autompne (automne in modern French) or autumpne in Middle English,^[13] and was later normalised to the original Latin. In the Medieval period, there are rare examples of its use as early as the 12th century, but by the 16th century, it was in common use.

Before the 16th century, harvest was the term usually used to refer to the season, as it is common in other West Germanic languages to this day (cf. Dutch herfst, German Herbst and Scots hairst). However, as more people gradually moved from working the land to living in towns, the word harvest lost its reference to the time of year and came to refer only to the actual activity of reaping, and autumn, as well as fall, began to replace it as a reference to the season.^[14][15]

The alternative word fall for the season traces its origins to old Germanic languages. The exact derivation is unclear, with the Old English fiæll or feallan and the Old Norse fall all being possible candidates. However, these words all have the meaning «to fall from a height» and are clearly derived either from a common root or from each other. The term came to denote the season in 16th-century England, a contraction of Middle English expressions like «fall of the leaf» and «fall of the year».^[16]

During the 17th century, English emigration to the British colonies in North America was at its peak, and the new settlers took the English language with them. While the term fall gradually became obsolete in Britain, it became the more common term in North America.

The name backend, a once common name for the season in Northern England, has today been largely replaced by the name autumn.^[17]

Associations

Harvest

Association with the transition from warm to cold weather, and its related status as the season of the primary harvest, has dominated its themes and popular images. In Western cultures, personifications of autumn are usually pretty, well-fed females adorned with fruits, vegetables and grains that ripen at this time. Many cultures feature autumnal harvest festivals, often the most important on their calendars. Still extant echoes of these celebrations are found in the autumn Thanksgiving holiday of the United States and Canada, and the Jewish Sukkot holiday with its roots as a full-moon harvest festival of «tabernacles» (living in outdoor huts around the time of harvest).^{[citation needed]} There are also the many North American Indian festivals tied to harvest of ripe foods gathered in the wild, the Chinese Mid-Autumn or Moon festival, and many others. The predominant mood of these autumnal celebrations is a gladness for the fruits of the earth mixed with a certain melancholy linked to the imminent arrival of harsh weather.

This view is presented in English poet John Keats’ poem To Autumn, where he describes the season as a time of bounteous fecundity, a time of ‘mellow fruitfulness’.

While most foods are harvested during the autumn, foods particularly associated with the season include pumpkins (which are integral parts of both Thanksgiving and Halloween) and apples, which are used to make the seasonal beverage apple cider.

Melancholia

Autumn, especially in poetry, has often been associated with melancholia. The possibilities of summer are gone, and the chill of winter is on the horizon. Skies turn grey, the amount of usable daylight drops rapidly, and many people turn inward, both physically and mentally.^[18] It has been referred to as an unhealthy season.^[19]

Similar examples may be found in Irish poet William Butler Yeats’ poem The Wild Swans at Coole where the maturing season that the poet observes symbolically represents his own ageing self. Like the natural world that he observes, he too has reached his prime and now must look forward to the inevitability of old age and death. French poet Paul Verlaine’s «Chanson d’automne» («Autumn Song») is likewise characterised by strong, painful feelings of sorrow. Keats’ To Autumn, written in September 1819, echoes this sense of melancholic reflection, but also emphasises the lush abundance of the season.

Halloween

Autumn is associated with Halloween (influenced by Samhain, a Celtic autumn festival),^[20] and with it a widespread marketing campaign that promotes it. Halloween is in autumn in the northern hemisphere. The television, film, book, costume, home decoration, and confectionery industries use this time of year to promote products closely associated with such a holiday, with promotions going from early September to 31 October, since their themes rapidly lose strength once the holiday ends, and advertising starts concentrating on Christmas.

Other associations

Autumn also has a strong association with the end of summer holiday and the start of a new school year, particularly for children in primary and secondary education. «Back to School» advertising and preparations usually occurs in the weeks leading to the beginning of autumn.

Easter is in autumn in the southern hemisphere.

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated in Canada, in the United States, in some of the Caribbean islands and in Liberia. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States, and around the same part of the year in other places. Similarly named festival holidays occur in Germany and Japan.

Television stations and networks, particularly in North America, traditionally begin their regular seasons in autumn, with new series and new episodes of existing series debuting mostly during late September or early October (series that debut outside the fall season are usually known as mid-season replacements). A sweeps period takes place in November to measure Nielsen Ratings.

American football is played almost exclusively in the autumn months; at the high school level, seasons run through September and October, with some playoff games and holiday rivalry contests being played as late as Thanksgiving. College football’s regular season runs from September through November, while the main professional circuit, the National Football League, plays from September through December. Summer sports, such as stock car racing and Major League Baseball, wrap up their seasons in early autumn; MLB’s championship World Series is known popularly as the «Fall Classic».^[21] (Amateur baseball is usually finished by August.) Likewise, professional winter sports, such as professional ice hockey, basketball and most leagues of soccer football in Europe, are in the early stages of their seasons during autumn; American college basketball and college ice hockey play teams outside their athletic conferences during the late autumn before their in-conference schedules begin in winter.

The Christian religious holidays of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day are observed in autumn in the Northern hemisphere.

Since 1997, Autumn has been one of the top 100 names for girls in the United States.^[22]

In Indian mythology, autumn is considered to be the preferred season for the goddess of learning Saraswati, who is also known by the name of «goddess of autumn» (Sharada).

In Asian mysticism, Autumn is associated with the element of metal, and subsequently with the colour white, the White Tiger of the West, and death and mourning.

In the United States, Labor Day is a public holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September.

In Australia and New Zealand, Anzac Day, the day of remembrance in both countries of those who served and died in the wars those countries were involved in, falls in the autumn month of April. It is a public holiday in both countries. Traditionally, the people attend dawn services, wear paper poppies sold by the Returned Services Association, and bake Anzac biscuits. Graves of the dead are decorated in places such as Te Awamatu, and the Anzac day clash Aussie Rules game in Australia is played between Collingwood and Essendon, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

Tourism

Although colour change in leaves occurs wherever deciduous trees are found, coloured autumn foliage is noted in various regions of the world: most of North America, Eastern Asia (including China, Korea, and Japan), Europe, the forest of Patagonia, eastern Australia and New Zealand’s South Island.

Eastern Canada and New England are famous for their autumnal foliage,^[23][24] and this attracts major tourism (worth billions of US dollars) for the regions.^[25][26]

Paintings

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See also

• Autumn in New England
• Diwali