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• Various religions have a summer holiday; scholars point out that even Christianity's Saint John's Eve partly reflects the Christianization of pre-Christian midsummer festivals.From the entry summer holiday
• Bakers still complain that there has been no midsummer bulge in the bread trade.1922, T.W. Knaff, Northwestern Miller, page 166. From the entry bread trade
• Of the Great Lakes, Lake Michigan-Huron had the highest water levels in midsummer and Lake Superior, in early fall.2006, Magnuson, Kratz, & Benson, Long-term dynamics of lakes in the landscape, page 132. From the entry Lake Michigan-Huron
• Tall varieties need to be sideshooted and ‘stopped’ in midsummer.1984, Larkcom, Joy, The salad garden, Windward, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry sideshoot
• The temperature in midsummer lingers around 20° C.1972, Chi Hsin, “Where the Sunghua River Flows”, in The Seeds and Other Stories, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 145. From the entry hilly
• It was midsummer when the three travellers I entered that strange town which is the capital of Chinese Turkestan.1935, Mildred Cable, Francesca French, The Making of a Pioneer, Hodder & Stoughton, page 105. From the entry Chinese Turkestan
• "The Christmas tree of our early settlers; native name 'pohutukawa.' It comes into bloom mostly during the Christmas week (midsummer here).[1919 August 28, James W. Poynton, quotee, Plant Immigrants, number 160, Washington, D.C.: Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction…. From the entry Christmas tree
• During the singing act these wing surfaces are moved rapidly on each other, producing the familiar strident trillings of midsummer.1910, Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. From the entry trilling
• O Bon, or the Festival of the Dead in midsummer, was a festival of the people, as also was Otsukimi, or Moon-Viewing.1952, Elizabeth Gray Vining, Windows for the Crown Prince, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., →OCLC, page 230. From the entry Otsukimi
• The midsummer sun is low, and a long table in the aforeshown apartment is laid out for a dinner, among other decorations being bunches of the season's roses.1906, Thomas Hardy, “Act I, Scene VIII”, in The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, in Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, & One Hundred and…. From the entry aforeshown
• Later came midsummer, with the stifling heat, when the dingy killing beds of Durham’s became a very purgatory; one time, in a single day, three men fell dead from sunstroke.1904, Upton Sinclair, chapter 10, in The Jungle. From the entry sunstroke

Meaning of midsummer

1. noun The period around the summer solstice; around June 21st in the northern hemisphere.
2. noun The first day of summer.
3. noun The middle of summer.

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How do you use midsummer in a sentence?

Midsummer is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Various religions have a summer holiday; scholars point out that even Christianity's Saint John's Eve partly reflects the Christianization of pre-Christian midsummer festivals.”

What is a short sentence with midsummer?

“The temperature in midsummer lingers around 20° C.”

What does midsummer mean?

Midsummer means the period around the summer solstice; around June 21st in the northern hemisphere.