midsummer
the middle of summer.
the summer solstice, around June 21.
Origin of midsummer
1Other words from midsummer
- mid·sum·mer·y, adjective
- pre·mid·sum·mer, noun, adjective
Words Nearby midsummer
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How to use midsummer in a sentence
Around them, Kansas City glowed in the midsummer dusk; ahead of them glimmered the future.
The midnight sun makes the crime low and the people cheerful from midsummer until the first days of autumn.
midsummer's Day is an appropriately Game of Thrones-ish date for a birthday, and Prince William turns 31 today.
At midsummer was to be a fete in the Saboba village, and the San Bernardino priest would come there.
Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonAbout Christmas they again ravaged Northumberland, and let off Cumberland till midsummer day next year for the sum of 600 marks.
King Robert the Bruce | A. F. Murison
Tell you what I did over in Chattanooga—in red-hot midsummer, too, said Flick, in a burst of confidence.
The Woman Gives | Owen JohnsonFive thousand pounds were sent to keep things going until midsummer, and out of this Sidney was to pay the soldiers.
Ireland Under the Tudors, Vol. II (of 3) | Richard BagwellThe two queens—one at the dawn, the other in the midsummer of life—presented at this moment the utmost contrast.
Catherine de' Medici | Honore de Balzac
British Dictionary definitions for midsummer
/ (ˈmɪdˈsʌmə) /
the middle or height of the summer
(as modifier): a midsummer carnival
another name for summer solstice
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