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Meanings of midsummer in English
Portuguese
21 de junho Catalan
nit de sant joan Russian
день святого иоанна Portuguese
festa junina Catalan
la nit de sant joan Spanish
fiestas juninas Festival associated with the summer solstice.
Synonyms
Examples for "midsummer festival"
Examples for "midsummer festival"
1
In Slavonic countries, also, the midsummer festival is celebrated with similar rites.
2
But first I had to survive the Swedish midsummer festival.
3
The morning light shone through a large window, over which hung a decoration left over from the Tanabata midsummer festival.
4
It was home to a midsummer festival at the time of the Nazis and was once used as Berlin's only official concentration camp.
5
The host bade make benches for the many valiant men, for the midsummer festival, (5) at which Siegfried should gain the name of knight.
1
But I should wish it to be before Saint John's Day.
2
Yes, the other Saint John's Day, or its Eve, would do.
3
I don't know why you did not come to us as shepherdess last Saint John's Day.
4
On Saint John's day the celebrations began, and that day the king was seen with the infanta, his bride.
5
But I have at last found a dwelling which will just suit us, and we mean to move on Saint John's Day.'
1
Henceforth, on the Feast of Saint John the Baptist, a tribute of .
2
The feast of Saint John the Baptist, la fête nationale du Québec, came and went.
Usage of midsummer in English
1
In the southern part, midsummer is in January and midwinter in July.
2
In May he took Upsala; by midsummer he was besieging Stockholm itself.
3
The arrangement was that the wedding was to take place in midsummer.
4
In midsummer the bed is dry, and almost obliterated by the drift.
5
It was the vacation time-themidsummer carnival weeks of the wilderness people.
6
As solstices go, this midsummer one was particularly special for Niamh Gaffney.
7
In Slavonic countries, also, the midsummer festival is celebrated with similar rites.
8
Duchess-night had seen the first sprinkling of rain since the midsummer conjunction.
9
In the winter he returned to Italy, and it was midsummer, B.C.
10
The month in which none fell at all was midsummer, of course.
11
The scorching heat of a midsummer day beat mercilessly upon the earth.
12
Redpath had besought him as usual, and even in midsummer had written:
13
The Indians enter the Cueva del Guacharo once a year, near midsummer.
14
He won their hearts still further by something he did in midsummer.
15
Screened from the wind, the sun here was of almost midsummer strength.
16
Though it was midsummer Hetta entered the room with her veil down.
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Translations for midsummer
Portuguese
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Russian
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Midsummer through the time
Midsummer across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
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