winter solstice

1. 1.

   December 22, when the sun is at its southernmost point

   Antonymssummer solstice

   Broadersolstice

   Part ofwinter

Questions about winter solstice

What does winter solstice mean?

winter solstice means "December 22, when the sun is at its southernmost point".

What is the opposite of winter solstice?

The recorded antonyms are summer solstice.

Is winter solstice a common word?

winter 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.