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SUMMER SOLSTICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does summer solstice mean?
• SUMMER SOLSTICE (noun)
The noun SUMMER SOLSTICE has 1 sense:
1. June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point
Familiarity information: SUMMER SOLSTICE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("summer solstice" 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 ("summer solstice" 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)
Antonym:
winter solstice (December 22, when the sun is at its southernmost point)
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