summer solstice
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.
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