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midwinter

[ noun mid-win-ter, -win-; adjective mid-win-ter ]

noun

  1. the middle of winter.
  2. the winter solstice, around December 22.


adjective

  1. of, relating to, or occurring in the middle of the winter.

midwinter

/ ˈmɪdˈwɪntə /

noun

    1. the middle or depth of the winter
    2. ( as modifier )

      a midwinter festival

  1. another name for winter solstice


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Other Words From

  • midwintry midwinter·ly adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of midwinter1

before 1150; Middle English, Old English; mid 1, winter

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Example Sentences

To honor the Norse god Thor, some Reykjavík restaurants host Thorrablot, a midwinter feast with traditional foods to celebrate the season.

And in Moominland Midwinter Jansson immortalised her life-partner Tuulikki as wise, life-embracing Too-ticky.

The smell of barbecue wafted through the air of an absolutely beautiful, spring-like midwinter day.

Midwinter Madness A suicidal woman is persuaded from the edge of a subway platform.

Even the English grass, bright green in midwinter, only added to the sense of unreality.

It was midwinter, when the old man brought the gifts, the time of the pale, cold moon.

I was ill prepared for a journey in midwinter through the enemy's country: happily I had my old overcoat, and this I put on.

One morning in the midwinter, when it was very cold with seventy degrees of frost, Regis Brugiere resolved to hunt the deer.

With the coming of midwinter a somnolent period seemed also to occur in Hollister's affairs.

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