Meaning
1 senses(not comparable)Of or occurring in the middle of summer.
Examples
4 sentencesIn spring brightly green, and spangled with wild flowers, by midsummer this prairie had grown sere and yellow.
It was midsummer.
deEs war Mittsommer. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
The climate of this town is so mild that the thermometer seldom rises to thirty degrees, even in midsummer.
deDas Klima dieser Stadt ist so mild, dass das Thermometer selten dreißig Grad erreicht, selbst im Hochsommer. — Tamy
There are often many parties around Midsummer.
Origin
From Middle English midsomer, midsumer, from Old English midsumer, midsumor (“midsummer”),From Middle English midsomer, midsumer, from Old English midsumer, midsumor (“midsummer”), from Proto-West Germanic *midisumar, from Proto-Germanic *midjasumaraz (“midsummer”), equivalent to mid- + summer. Cognate with West Frisian midsimmer (“midsummer”), Dutch midzomer (“midsummer”), German Mittsommer (“midsummer”), Danish midsommer (“midsummer”), Swedish midsommar (“midsummer”), Icelandic miðsumar (“midsummer”).
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Word family
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