Learn English – Winters or winter

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In my question here, I have used a sentence

I don't like winters.

While a user commented that I should use winter and not winters. But from my understanding, winter comes every year and disliking winter is for every year,not just for one year. So it should be winters.
Which one is correct?

EDIT:

I found it here that winter can be singular or plural depending on the sentence construction. And the sentence in this question, I think it would be winters itself.

Best Answer

In the sentence,

I don't like winters.

winters refers to the season in plural, describing a dislike for a quantity of winters. This adds ambiguity to the sentence as the range or amount of "disliked winters" is unspecified.

Changing winters to winter would imply a dislike for winter in general. This greatly clarifies the meaning of the sentence:

I don't like winter.

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