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summer solstice Definition

summer solstice

noun

summer solstice Usage Examples

Possessives

  • year: Opening the monument for this year's summer solstice is an important step along the way to achieving this.

Converse of object

  • celebrate: Then, in 1971, the Glastonbury Fayre was held to celebrate the summer solstice.
  • mark: Gilded Hornton stone with declination lines crossing the hour lines to mark the summer solstice and equinoxes.

Adjective modifier

  • last: As at last summer solstice a Maori group greeted the sun, the ancestors who built the place, and the other celebrants present.

Modifies a noun

  • sunrise: Summer solstice sunrise on the longest day on the year.
  • celebration: That's what officers who will be carrying out bicycle patrols during the summer solstice celebrations in Avebury on June 21 are calling themselves.
  • festival: First published on June 15, 1985 THE High Court is being asked to allow the Stonehenge summer solstice festival to go ahead.
  • ceremony: Ancient China: Their summer solstice ceremony celebrated the earth, the feminine, and the yin forces.
  • sun: The unique summer solstice sun beaming through the chamber has now been recorded by history experts.
  • sunset: Several alignments are possible from here, especially at summer solstice sunset, when the sun sets in the north west.