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# midsummer

«midsummer» in Mova's school dictionary: **the middle of summer, around the longest day of the year** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (midsummer — uncountable); adjective (midsummer)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Midsummer is the middle of summer, around the longest day of the year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midsummer/#m1)

2) Midsummer Day or Midsummer's Eve is a traditional festival at that time, especially in northern Europe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midsummer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, the summer solstice has the most daylight. In literature, «A Midsummer Night's Dream» is a play with fairies. In Sweden people dance round a maypole at Midsummer; in Australia and NZ midsummer falls around Christmas.

### examples

- At midsummer it stays light until very late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midsummer/#x1)
- We had a picnic on midsummer's evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midsummer/#x2)
- In Sweden people dance at Midsummer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midsummer/#x3)
- In Australia midsummer comes around Christmas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midsummer/#x4)
- Stonehenge lines up with the sunrise at midsummer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midsummer/#x5)
- The fairies came out on Midsummer's Eve. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midsummer/#x6)
- The spring passed, and it was the eve of St. John, or Midsummer Day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midsummer/#x7)

### note

Opposite: midwinter. The longest day is in different months in the northern and southern hemispheres.

### In the corpora

- [By midsummer the colony can grow from about 10,000 bees to 50,000 or more.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/2/)
- [The stones of Stonehenge line up with the sunrise in midsummer and the sunset in midwinter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/2-the-first-farms-and-towns/16/)
- [Around midsummer the sky over Britain never gets fully dark, and in Scotland it stays light enough to read outside near midnight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «midsummer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midsummer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.