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mid·win·ter

(mĭd′wĭn′tər)

1. The middle of the winter.

2. The period of the winter solstice, on or about December 22 in the Northern Hemisphere.

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midwinter

(ˈmɪdˈwɪntə)

1. (Astronomy)

a. the middle or depth of the winter

b. (as modifier): a midwinter festival.

2. another name for winter solstice

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mid•win•ter

(n. ˈmɪdˈwɪn tər, -ˌwɪn-; adj. -ˌwɪn-)

n.

1. the middle of winter.

2. the winter solstice, around December 22.

adj.

3. of, pertaining to, or occurring in the middle of the winter.

[before 1150]

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Noun

midwinter - the middle of winter

period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"

winter, wintertime - the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox

Translations

مُنْتَصَف الشِّتاء

uprostřed zimy

midvintermidvinter-

tél: a tél dereka

hávetur; tíminn í kringum vetrarsólhvörf

pieno inverno

viduržiemis

ziemas vidus

midt på vinteren

uprostred zimy

kış ortası

仲冬冬至

midwinter

[ˈmɪdˈwɪntəʳ]

A. N → pleno invierno m
in midwinter → en pleno invierno

B. CPD → de pleno invierno

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midwinter

[ˌmɪdˈwɪntə^r]

n → plein hiver m
in midwinter → en plein hiver

modif [gale, blizzard, snow] → d'hiver; [break] → d'hiver

midwinter

n → Mitte f → des Winters, Wintermitte f

adj → um die Mitte des Winters, mittwinterlich

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midwinter

[ˌmɪdˈwɪntəʳ] n → pieno inverno

midwinter

(midˈwintə) noun

the middle of winter. He arrived in midwinter; (also adjective) on a midwinter day.

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Not till midwinter was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son's handwriting.

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It was not yet quite midwinter, and the turbulent Fifty Mile River vindicated his judgment.

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It was January, midwinter, an awful time to have to face privation.

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There his wife, nearly twenty-six years ago, had broken to him, with a blushing circumlocution that would have caused the young women of the new generation to smile, the news that she was to have a child; and there their eldest boy, Dallas, too delicate to be taken to church in midwinter, had been christened by their old friend the Bishop of New York, the ample magnificent irreplaceable Bishop, so long the pride and ornament of his diocese.