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Winter (disambiguation)

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ239003
Source-derived summary

Winter is one of the four temperate seasons.

Winter may also refer to:

Places

Winter, Saskatchewan, Canada

Winter, West Virginia

Winter (town), Wisconsin, U.S.

Winter, Wisconsin, U.S., a village within the town

Winters, California, U.S.

Winters, Michigan, U.S., a former post office in Rock River Township, Michigan

Winters, Texas, U.S.

Winter (MBTA station), a station in Downtown Crossing

Winter Building, a historic building in Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.

People

Winter (given name)

Winter (surname)

Winters (name), a surname

Winter (programmer), freelance software programmer and consultant Rafael Antonio Lozano Jr. (born 1972), legally changed his name to Winter

Winter (singer), stage name of Kim Min-jeong (born 2001), a member of the South Korean girl group Aespa

Winter (wrestler), a ring name of Katarina Waters (born 1980), German-born English professional wrestler

Animals

Winter (dolphin), a dolphin with a prosthetic tail, subject of the 2011 movie Dolphin Tale

Winter (horse), a racehorse who won the 2017 1000 Guineas Stakes

Winter (llama), a Belgian llama used in antibody research

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

Winter, a planet in Ursula K. Le Guin's novel The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

Winter (Star Wars), a character in the Star Wars universe

Winter Anderson, from American Horror Story: Cult played by Billie Lourd

Winter Santiaga, the main character in the 1999 novel The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah

Winter Schnee, a minor character from the web series RWBY

Films

Winter (1930 film), a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short

Winter (2002 film), an Italian romance-drama film

Winter (2009 film), a Malayalam horror film

The Winter (2013 film), Greek film with Vangelis Mourikis

El invierno, The Winter 2016 Argentine film

Literature

"Winter" (poem), a poem by Mehdi Akhavan-Sales

Winter, a 1974 book by Morley Callaghan

Winter (Deighton novel), a 1987 novel by Len Deighton

Winter (Marsden novel), a 2000 novel by John Marsden

Winter (Meyer novel), a 2015 novel by Marissa Meyer

Winter (Smith novel), a 2017 novel by Ali Smith

Winter: Five Windows on the Season, the 2011 Massey Lectures by Adam Gopnik

Music

Groups and labels

Winter (metal band), a death/doom metal band

Winter (indie rock band), an American pop band fronted by Samira Winter

Winter & Winter Records, a record label

Albums

Winter (Akdong Musician album), 2017

Winter (New Model Army album), 2016

Winter (Steeleye Span album), 2004

Winter/Reflections, by Boyz II Men, 2005

The Winter.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Winter (disambiguation)” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Winter, disambiguation and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 2001, 1980, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Winter, disambiguation and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “wikimedia disambiguation page” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q239003. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1972, 2001, 1980 and 2011.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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This entry incorporates text from Winter (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.