summer solstice

Questions about summer solstice

What does summer solstice mean?

summer solstice means "June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point".

What is another word for summer solstice?

Close synonyms include June 21, midsummer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of summer solstice?

The recorded antonyms are winter solstice.

Is summer solstice a common word?

summer solstice is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for summer solstice come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.