midsummer
- the middle of summer.
- the summer solstice, around June 21.
Origin of midsummer
Examples from the Web for midsummer
Contemporary Examples of midsummer
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.
Historical Examples of midsummer
The passage was a fine one, as we doubled the Horn at midsummer.
Ned MyersJames Fenimore Cooper
The glory of midsummer mid-day upon mountain, lake, and ruin.
A Dish Of OrtsGeorge MacDonald
The judges had been directed to look again into the matter at the midsummer assizes.
BunyanJames Anthony Froude
This explained to the jury why in midsummer he wore a frock coat.
Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The SearchlightMathew Joseph Holt
This fruit may be kept for several months, if gathered of a middling size at midsummer, and treated in the following manner.
midsummer
- the middle or height of the summer
- (as modifier)a midsummer carnival
- another name for summer solstice