Midsummer
noun
The middle of summer, specifically the period around the summer solstice, roughly June 21st.
We had a traditional barbecue party on midsummer.

Often appears as...
- midsummer celebration
- midsummer day
noun
A traditional festivity in some cultures, celebrated near the time of the summer solstice.
In Sweden, midsummer is a national holiday with dancing and singing.

Often appears as...
- midsummer festival
- midsummer eve
noun
A play by William Shakespeare titled 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
The local theater company is putting on a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.

Often appears as...
- 'a midsummer night's dream' performance
- 'a midsummer night's dream' stage
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noun
The middle of summer, specifically the period around the summer solstice, roughly June 21st.
We had a traditional barbecue party on midsummer.

Often appears as...
- midsummer celebration
- midsummer day
noun
A traditional festivity in some cultures, celebrated near the time of the summer solstice.
In Sweden, midsummer is a national holiday with dancing and singing.

Often appears as...
- midsummer festival
- midsummer eve
noun
A play by William Shakespeare titled 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
The local theater company is putting on a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.

Often appears as...
- 'a midsummer night's dream' performance
- 'a midsummer night's dream' stage
Usage tips
Approving
Literary
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Specific Timing
Midsummer refers to a specific point in summer, often celebrated as a day.

Let's plan our family reunion for midsummer.
Cultural Celebrations
Many cultures have unique customs and festivities for midsummer.

They light bonfires on midsummer as a local tradition.
Seasonal Change
Midsummer marks when days start shortening as the season progresses.

After midsummer, the nights gradually get longer.
Specific Timing
Midsummer refers to a specific point in summer, often celebrated as a day.

Let's plan our family reunion for midsummer.
Cultural Celebrations
Many cultures have unique customs and festivities for midsummer.

They light bonfires on midsummer as a local tradition.
Seasonal Change
Midsummer marks when days start shortening as the season progresses.

After midsummer, the nights gradually get longer.
Specific Timing
Midsummer refers to a specific point in summer, often celebrated as a day.

Let's plan our family reunion for midsummer.
Cultural Celebrations
Many cultures have unique customs and festivities for midsummer.

They light bonfires on midsummer as a local tradition.
Seasonal Change
Midsummer marks when days start shortening as the season progresses.

After midsummer, the nights gradually get longer.
Video examples
Insightful human...
Or, "Now I'm a professor of engineering at NYU, but actually I'm an artist." If you go upstate, you see "dinosaur." That's Syracuse. The best place to eat in Syracuse, New York, is a Hell's Angels barbecue joint called Dinosaur Barbecue. That's where you would take somebody on a date. I live somewhere between "unconditional" and "midsummer," in Midtown Manhattan.
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Safari Live - Day 110 PIPE...
took a bit of a battering in that so we just interesting to see how this all plays out and whether or not that midsummer makes another appearance on a live Drive you is the two of them were such a big part of safari life when it first got back up and running in Douma and the many of you will remember lots
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How to Raise a Baby...
are very happy keeps your digestion going the erection is one of the toughest animals out there once again going to get grown up take a whuppin animal twice their size and climb trees swim taking care of part logs and eat bugs about midsummer when the babies are big enough to follow bum around and
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Slowly into Secret...
and protect the nature as well. Yeah. The reasons why this site is designated is for its assemblage of wildflowers. So, if you come in midsummer there's like carpets of pink thrift and a sea of yellow from various flowers, rock rose and gorse and... yeah, it's beautiful.
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Best Of Oceans PIPE BBC...
it's a much-needed defense mechanism when there is no escape for the midsummer Sun a tiny island lost in the midst of the Pacific it's the tip of a huge mountain that rises precipitously from the seafloor thousands of metres below
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What's Hiding in the...
when there is no escape from the midsummer sun if you want to find the greatest number and variety of animals that communicate with light you have to go to the darkest place on
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The Blue Planet...
it's now midsummer and the sun is shining at full strength the increasing warmth is the cue for an Atlantic lobster to start on a long journey she
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Lobsters Battle for a...
it's now midsummer and the sun is shining at full strength the increasing warmth is the cue for an Atlantic
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Lobsters At War! PIPE Blue...
it's now midsummer and the sun is shining at full strength the increasing warmth is the cue for an Atlantic
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Lobsters Fighting to...
It's now midsummer and the sun is shining at full strength.
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Insightful human...
Or, "Now I'm a professor of engineering at NYU, but actually I'm an artist." If you go upstate, you see "dinosaur." That's Syracuse. The best place to eat in Syracuse, New York, is a Hell's Angels barbecue joint called Dinosaur Barbecue. That's where you would take somebody on a date. I live somewhere between "unconditional" and "midsummer," in Midtown Manhattan.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 110 PIPE...
took a bit of a battering in that so we just interesting to see how this all plays out and whether or not that midsummer makes another appearance on a live Drive you is the two of them were such a big part of safari life when it first got back up and running in Douma and the many of you will remember lots
Video examples
How to Raise a Baby...
are very happy keeps your digestion going the erection is one of the toughest animals out there once again going to get grown up take a whuppin animal twice their size and climb trees swim taking care of part logs and eat bugs about midsummer when the babies are big enough to follow bum around and
Video examples
Slowly into Secret...
and protect the nature as well. Yeah. The reasons why this site is designated is for its assemblage of wildflowers. So, if you come in midsummer there's like carpets of pink thrift and a sea of yellow from various flowers, rock rose and gorse and... yeah, it's beautiful.
Video examples
Best Of Oceans PIPE BBC...
it's a much-needed defense mechanism when there is no escape for the midsummer Sun a tiny island lost in the midst of the Pacific it's the tip of a huge mountain that rises precipitously from the seafloor thousands of metres below
Video examples
What's Hiding in the...
when there is no escape from the midsummer sun if you want to find the greatest number and variety of animals that communicate with light you have to go to the darkest place on
Video examples
The Blue Planet...
it's now midsummer and the sun is shining at full strength the increasing warmth is the cue for an Atlantic lobster to start on a long journey she
Video examples
Lobsters Battle for a...
it's now midsummer and the sun is shining at full strength the increasing warmth is the cue for an Atlantic
Video examples
Lobsters At War! PIPE Blue...
it's now midsummer and the sun is shining at full strength the increasing warmth is the cue for an Atlantic
Video examples
Lobsters Fighting to...
It's now midsummer and the sun is shining at full strength.
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Quote examples
Theo James
English Actor
Sprinting for a full day in Atlanta in midsummer proved very challenging. That humidity is crazy. Georgia is a beautiful state, but the weather is intense. I was warned, but for some reason I thought it would be like L.A. in the summer. The reality? No.

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Alice Roberts
English Scientist
Stonehenge is famously aligned with midsummer sunrise, and possibly also intentionally with midwinter sunset.

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Theo James
English Actor
Sprinting for a full day in Atlanta in midsummer proved very challenging. That humidity is crazy. Georgia is a beautiful state, but the weather is intense. I was warned, but for some reason I thought it would be like L.A. in the summer. The reality? No.

Quote examples
Alice Roberts
English Scientist
Stonehenge is famously aligned with midsummer sunrise, and possibly also intentionally with midwinter sunset.

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