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midnight sun

[ mid-nahyt suhn ]

noun

  1. the sun visible at midnight in Arctic and Antarctic regions during their summer months.


midnight sun

noun

  1. the sun visible at midnight during local summer inside the Arctic and Antarctic circles


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Word History and Origins

Origin of midnight sun1

First recorded in 1855–60

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Example Sentences

Cecilia Blomdahl stands in the entryway of her cabin, panning the camera to reveal a body of water glittering with light from the midnight sun.

The midnight sun makes the crime low and the people cheerful from midsummer until the first days of autumn.

The U.S. ambassador to Sweden, with its “blond platinum diplomats straight through the Midnight Sun.”

Eighteen years later, Karenstua Café is as much a part of the Myken summer as the midnight sun.

The depot showed up well in the north-west as a bright golden spot in the low midnight sun.

After the ship sailed, and the land of the midnight sun had become icy and black, one of these comrades fell ill, and soon died.

Then, at Cape Prince of Wales you must have seen the midnight sun?

That is a Yankee going to see the midnight sun; go and talk to him.

The Midnight Sun is a grand steamer of 3,178 tons, and she was especially fitted out for yachting purposes.

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