MIDSUMMER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does midsummer mean? 

• MIDSUMMER (noun)
  The noun MIDSUMMER has 1 sense:

1. June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point

  Familiarity information: MIDSUMMER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDSUMMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

June 21; midsummer; summer solstice

Hypernyms ("midsummer" is a kind of...):

solstice (either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator)

Holonyms ("midsummer" is a part of...):

June (the month following May and preceding July)

summer; summertime (the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox)

 Context examples 

“Colonel and Mrs. Campbell are to be in town again by midsummer,” said Jane.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

So the year rolled round, and at midsummer there came to Meg a new experience, the deepest and tenderest of a woman's life.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In midsummer White Fang had an experience.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I had nothing else to do, because it was the vacation, and I sat at them from morning till noon, and from noon till night: the length of the midsummer days favoured my inclination to apply.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She sacrificed her complexion floating on the river in the midsummer sun to study light and shade, and got a wrinkle over her nose trying after 'points of sight', or whatever the squint-and-string performance is called.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But the crowning joke was Mr. Laurence and Aunt March, for when the stately old gentleman chasseed solemnly up to the old lady, she just tucked her cane under her arm, and hopped briskly away to join hands with the rest and dance about the bridal pair, while the young folks pervaded the garden like butterflies on a midsummer day.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

For a while I lost sight of Jordan Baker, and then in midsummer I found her again.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

After the house, we were to see the grounds and the swimming pool, and the hydroplane and the midsummer flowers—but outside Gatsby's window it began to rain again so we stood in a row looking at the corrugated surface of the Sound.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)