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SOLSTICE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("solstice" is a kind of...):
cosmic time (the time covered by the physical formation and development of the universe)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "solstice"):
June 21; midsummer; summer solstice (June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point)
winter solstice (December 22, when the sun is at its southernmost point)
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