Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The middle of the winter.
- noun The period of the winter solstice, on or about December 22 in the Northern Hemisphere.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The middle of winter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The middle of
winter . - noun The
winter solstice ; aboutDecember 21st or 22nd.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the middle of winter
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Examples
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I recall her coming in midwinter from the frozen village where she lived.
The Promised Land 1912
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Between the flak, the searchlights, the night fighters and the freezing, airless cold at twenty-thousand feet, bombing Germany in midwinter is no joke at all - but with some of the friends he’s got, pilot Ken Harding might not even need any enemies.
Dynamite Comics for January 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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The year turns and does not know what to be, hovers in midwinter waiting for someone to show it how to bud and break forth into colour and life once more.
skittledog: January skittledog 2009
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Under the sun or the stars, at high noon or at midnight, in midwinter or in midsummer, it does not matter when, it is always the same temperature -- not too warm, not too cold, just right.
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Three months afterward, in midwinter, he smote the north shore of the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Greece in the same stupefying manner.
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The year turns and does not know what to be, hovers in midwinter waiting for someone to show it how to bud and break forth into colour and life once more.
Susannah's Journal skittledog 2009
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The new finds at Durrington Walls, two miles northeast of the stone circle, indicate that the entire region was a large religious complex where the early Britons gathered in midwinter for raucous feasts and solemn ceremonies before sending their deceased on a voyage to the afterlife.
Stonehenge…where the party animals go! …Er, went. | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2007
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"Once a bastion of difficulty and high seriousness - an identity that suited an event held in midwinter in a city with a vexed, often grim history - the Berlinale, which began last Thursday and concludes with awards on Sunday - has grown into something bigger, more varied and perhaps less distinctive," writes AO Scott in the New York Times.
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But it took only a few minutes of actually reading the texts of these manuals (which are often published in midwinter to serve the many brides planning June campaigns) to bring me to my senses.
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But it took only a few minutes of actually reading the texts of these manuals (which are often published in midwinter to serve the many brides planning June campaigns) to bring me to my senses.
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