midsummer

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It was then full midsummer, and it now early spring: and during the intervening months the doctor had not had a happy time of it.

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  1. noun The middle of the summer.
  2. noun The summer solstice, about June 21.

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  1. from Middle English midsomer, from Anglo-Saxon midsumor, middesumor (= Middle Low German middensomer = German mittsommer = Icelandic midhsumar = Swedish midsommar = Danish midsommer), from mid, mid, + sumor, summer.
 

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/ˈmɪdsəmər/
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