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"
Examples for "midsummer"
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.
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.