WINTER SOLSTICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does winter solstice mean? 

• WINTER SOLSTICE (noun)
  The noun WINTER SOLSTICE has 1 sense:

1. December 22, when the sun is at its southernmost point

  Familiarity information: WINTER SOLSTICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINTER SOLSTICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

December 22, when the sun is at its southernmost point

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("winter 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 ("winter solstice" is a part of...):

winter; wintertime (the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox)

Antonym:

summer solstice (June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point)

 Context examples 

As southern winter solstice approaches in the Saturn system, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been revealing dramatic seasonal changes in the atmospheric temperature and composition of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

(Cassini Sees Dramatic Seasonal Changes on Titan, NASA)

The season between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice.

(Autumn, NCI Thesaurus)