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MIDSUMMER DAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Midsummer Day mean?
• MIDSUMMER DAY (noun)
The noun MIDSUMMER DAY has 1 sense:
1. a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
Familiarity information: MIDSUMMER DAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
June 24; Midsummer's Day; Midsummer Day; St John's Day
Hypernyms ("Midsummer Day" is a kind of...):
quarter day (a Christian holy day; one of four specified days when certain payments are due)
Holonyms ("Midsummer Day" is a part of...):
June (the month following May and preceding July)
Context examples
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)
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