Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The sun as seen at midnight during the summer within the Arctic and Antarctic regions.
Wiktionary
- n. The phenomenon occurring when the Sun does not set, but only approaches the horizon, at midnight; occurs near the summer solstice in the polar regions.
GNU Webster's 1913
- The sun shining at midnight in the arctic or antarctic summer.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the sun visible at midnight (inside the Arctic or Antarctic Circles)
Examples
“Well I want to (respectfully) say that Edward is just as flawed. .no he is not perfect. we are seeing him thru bellas eyes, who views him as perfect, but if you will read midnight sun you see he is anything but. and also, he did some manipulating of his own when he forced bella do mention their engagment in front of jacob.”
“Look for a while at the China Cat Sunflower proud-walking jingle in the midnight sun”
“When you posted midnight sun on your website, im not going to lie, i debated whether or not to read it!”
“Ya Jane im NOT alone!!! and ya I REALLY HOPE SM finishes midnight sun because i will DIE if she doesn't write it. if hse comes on here ever to see what people say then this is what i say”
“I would love to be able to read midnight sun someday from an actual book. being on here just isn't the same since i can't carry my laptop with me everywhere. lol”
“I was so disapointed when I heard you werent going to finsh midnight sun ....”
“There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold -- well, yeah, but it was only a little after noon when Bob Wisdom plopped his loaded lunch tray on our table and sat down like a man disgusted with the universe.”
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
“Being April, the days had begun to lengthen from the continual dark of winter toward the midnight sun of summer.”
Ice Hunt
“His desire erased all other thoughts, resistance, and ambitions from his brain; and he pictured wild and wacky visions of babies dancing in a midnight sun and old men crying at their own gravesides.”
An East Wind Coming
“How did your dad get away with the knife thing? and good luck with your little bundle of joy! bell-ish you can also read midnight sun on SM's web site, just go to twilight series, click on midnight sun, scroll down and click on 'midnight sun partial draft'.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘midnight sun’.
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Benandanti
All things Light
aureole, aura, aurora borealis, aglow, lucent, lambent, radiant, bright, burn, fire, solstice, brazier and 94 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (M)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
mace, macintosh, madras, magenta, magic 8 ball, magma, mahogany, maiden, mail, mainsail, maize, malachite and 169 more...
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Chromonyms 2
Names for colors composed of two or more words. All of these are defined as colors in at least one dictionary, most being in MW3. See Chromonyms for one-word color names.
Some well-kno...absinthe green, moss green, pea green, apple green, yellow stone, dusty yellow, absinthe yellow, liqueur green, olive wood, tilleul buff, white jade, café au lait and 1529 more...
There are no permanent human settlements south of the Antarctic Circle, so the countries and territories whose populations experience it are limited to the ones crossed by the Arctic Circle, i.e. Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, and extremities of Iceland. A quarter of Finland's territory lies north of the Arctic Circle and at the country's northernmost point the sun does not set for 73 days during summer. In Svalbard, Norway, the northernmost inhabited region of Europe, there is no sunset from approximately April 19th to August 23rd. The extreme sites are the poles where the sun can be continuously visible for a half year.
_Wikipedia Feb 18, 2008