SUMMER SOLSTICE

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Meaning:

June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point

Synonyms:

June 21; midsummer; summer solstice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("summer solstice" is a kind of...):

solstice (either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator)

Holonyms ("summer solstice" is a part of...):

June (the month following May and preceding July)

summer; summertime (the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox)

Antonym:

winter solstice (December 22, when the sun is at its southernmost point)