midsummer

[ mid-suhm-er, -suhm- ]

noun

1. the middle of summer.
2. the summer solstice, around June 21.

midsummer

/ ˈmɪdˈsʌmə /

noun

1. 1. the middle or height of the summer
   2. ( as modifier )

      a midsummer carnival

2. another name for summer solstice

Other Words From

• midsummer·y adjective
• premid·summer noun adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of midsummer¹

before 900; Middle English, Old English midsumer. See mid ¹, summer ¹

Example Sentences

Temperatures are mild during the day and chilly at night, just right for cozying up in your sleeping bag, and the midsummer crowds have disappeared, making scoring a campsite that much easier.

From Outside Online

Around them, Kansas City glowed in the midsummer dusk; ahead of them glimmered the future.

From The Daily Beast

The midnight sun makes the crime low and the people cheerful from midsummer until the first days of autumn.

From The Daily Beast

Midsummer's Day is an appropriately Game of Thrones-ish date for a birthday, and Prince William turns 31 today.

From The Daily Beast

At midsummer was to be a fete in the Saboba village, and the San Bernardino priest would come there.

From Project Gutenberg

About Christmas they again ravaged Northumberland, and let off Cumberland till midsummer day next year for the sum of 600 marks.

From Project Gutenberg

Tell you what I did over in Chattanooga—in red-hot midsummer, too, said Flick, in a burst of confidence.

From Project Gutenberg

Five thousand pounds were sent to keep things going until Midsummer, and out of this Sidney was to pay the soldiers.

From Project Gutenberg

The two queens—one at the dawn, the other in the midsummer of life—presented at this moment the utmost contrast.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• summertime
• vacation