midsummer

Meanings

Noun

• The period around the summer solstice; about 21st June in the northern hemisphere.
• The first day of summer
• The middle of summer.
• Midsummer Day, the English quarter day.
• A pagan holiday or Wiccan Sabbat

Adjective

• Happening in the middle of summer.

Related

Similar words

• St John's Day
• northern solstice
• summer solstice
• June solstice

Origin

• From Middle English midsomer, midsumer, from Old English midsumer, midsumor, from Proto-West Germanic *midisumar, from Proto-Germanic *midjasumaraz, equivalent to . Cognate with West Frisian midsimmer, Dutch midzomer, German Mittsommer, Danish midsommer, Swedish midsommar, Icelandic miðsumar.