midwinter
Americannoun
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the middle or depth of the winter
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( as modifier )
a midwinter festival
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another name for winter solstice
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An Australian aviation crew has carried out a daring midwinter mission to rescue a US expedition member from a station in Antarctica in freezing temperatures and total darkness.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
How were so many otherwise reasonable people pranked into venturing to an empty Brooklyn Bridge Park in the bleak midwinter as 2025 ebbed to nothing, for nothing?
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2026
Even in midwinter, they need to swim, but still must be kept warm and dry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
As a result, vegetation that would typically be full of water by midwinter instead remained parched.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025
There were already people around, wandering the municipal gardens—now in midwinter, little more than a large grassy field with, here and there, some steps, a shrub, a statue.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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