midsummer

«midsummer» in Mova's school dictionary: the middle of summer, around the longest day of the year — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (midsummer — uncountable); adjective (midsummer)

meaning for a pupil

1) Midsummer is the middle of summer, around the longest day of the year. tree →

2) Midsummer Day or Midsummer's Eve is a traditional festival at that time, especially in northern Europe. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, the summer solstice has the most daylight. In literature, «A Midsummer Night's Dream» is a play with fairies. In Sweden people dance round a maypole at Midsummer; in Australia and NZ midsummer falls around Christmas.

examples

• At midsummer it stays light until very late. tree →
• We had a picnic on midsummer's evening. tree →
• In Sweden people dance at Midsummer. tree →
• In Australia midsummer comes around Christmas. tree →
• Stonehenge lines up with the sunrise at midsummer. tree →
• The fairies came out on Midsummer's Eve. tree →
• The spring passed, and it was the eve of St. John, or Midsummer Day. tree →

note

Opposite: midwinter. The longest day is in different months in the northern and southern hemispheres.

In the corpora

• By midsummer the colony can grow from about 10,000 bees to 50,000 or more.
• The stones of Stonehenge line up with the sunrise in midsummer and the sunset in midwinter.
• Around midsummer the sky over Britain never gets fully dark, and in Scotland it stays light enough to read outside near midnight.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «midsummer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.