Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. In the Northern Hemisphere, the solstice that occurs on or about December 22.
Wiktionary
- n. astronomy The moment when the Earth is in that point of its orbit where the northern or southern hemisphere is most inclined away from the sun.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Astron.) See Solstice, 2.
WordNet 3.0
- n. December 22, when the sun is at its southernmost point
Examples
“Over that part of England the winter solstice came down with a bitter antiphony of snow and frost.”
““It suggests, Mr. Stayne, that unknown to research, to experts, to folk dancers and to the societies, the so-called Mardian Mawris (the richest immeasurably of all English ritual dance-plays) was being performed annually at the Mardian Stone during the winter solstice up to as recently as fifteen years ago.””
“It was during the coldest time of the year, after the winter solstice and before the first breakup of spring, that Ovra went into labor.”
“From a vantage worthy of an Albert Bierstadt painting, I watched the red sunset light of the millennium’s first winter solstice transform Crestone Needle’s snow-plastered rock ribs into a purple mountain so majestic I cried at its beauty.”
“Fleabane was cut at the winter solstice for drying; Marius hadn’t thought there was a household in Rome knew of it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘winter solstice’.
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ENVI - Collocations TUVWXYZ
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
T rolls, table sugar, table wine, tabular block, tabular ice, tackle habitat de..., tackle hunger, tackle problems, tackle the crisis, tackle the escala..., tackle the waste ..., tagged image file... and 3050 more...
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Winter Holidays
Festivals occurring on or near the winter solstice and associated vocabulary.
winter solstice, saturnalia, christmas, grianstad an ghei..., yule, hogmanay, wren day, boxing day, sol invictus, hanukkah, kwanzaa, midwinter and 15 more...
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Night and Day
day length, daily cycle, and so on because the summer solstice is coming
solstice, summer solstice, winter solstice, diurnal, nocturnal, circadian, circadian rhythm
Tweets
Looking for tweets for winter solstice.
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