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say it: SAWL-stis
solstice is a noun meaning "either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator". It carries one recorded sense.
either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for solstice come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.