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Midwinter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The middle of the winter.

n. The period of the winter solstice, about December 22.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The middle of winter.

n. The winter solstice; about December 21st or 22nd.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The middle of winter.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The middle or depth of winter; the usual time of greatest winter cold; specifically, in English literature (winter being reckoned from the 1st of November in Great Britain), the period of the winter solstice, the 21st or 22d of December (which is astronomically the beginning of winter).

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n. the middle of winter

Word Usage

"I recall her coming in midwinter from the frozen village where she lived."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

time period period of time period

Form

midwinter night midwinter's eve midwinter's night midwinter's tide midwinter's even mid-winterly midwinter even midwinter tide mid-wintry midwinter's day

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Sprinter Winter minter overwinter printer reenter splinter sprinter winter

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

midsummer weeklong solstice crime-solving auroral mid-year two-day early-evening bacchanalian moonscape