midsummer
midsummer
Definition
mid·sum·mer (-sum′ər)
noun
- the middle of summer
- the time of the summer solstice, about June 21
adjective
of, in, or like midsummer
midsummer
Synonyms
midsummer
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- celebrate: We are having a re-union barbecue on the school fields to celebrate midsummer in a style.
- mark: The Cove at Stanton marks the minor southern midsummer setting as viewed from the northeast circle.
- spend: This is the place to spend midsummer, particularly Midsummer's Night when the whole region erupts in a frenzy of celebration.
Converse of subject
- relieve: An agreement is made that it will surrender if not relieved by midsummer 's day.
Adjective modifier
- minor: The Cove at Stanton marks the minor southern midsummer setting as viewed from the northeast circle.
- Swedish: As the Swedish midsummer approaches there is no escaping from the darkness of society.
- southern: The Cove at Stanton marks the minor southern midsummer setting as viewed from the northeast circle.
- little: The night, tho we were so little past midsummer, was as dark as January.
Modifies a noun
- sunrise: To the south east is an entrance with double stones which faces down the valley toward the midsummer sunrise.
- rising: From one of the stones of the latter, the midsummer risings may have been marked.
- solstice: Each monument was a circular structure, aligned with the rising of the sun at the midsummer solstice.
- madness: This piece of midsummer madness is an all new production specially created for the LIFT Club.
- sunset: The avenue of approach is aligned to the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset and the Station Stones mark the midwinter sunrise and midsummer sunset.
- sun: We sat in this high beautiful place, with the midsummer sun beating down on us from a clear, blue sky.
Possessives
- eve: She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born, On midsummer's eve, near the tower.
- night: The dew on midsummer's night is thought to have medicinal qualities.
- day: And don't forget Valentines Day, midsummer's day, 1st July, Christmas and New Years Eve!
Preposition: in
- style: We are having a re-union barbecue on the school fields to celebrate midsummer in a style.
midsummer Quotes
Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell.
To the King'sTheatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I ever saw in my life.
Far may be sought Erst that ye can find So courteous, so kind, As Merry Margaret, This midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower.
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