WINTER SOLSTICE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

December 22, when the sun is at its southernmost point

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("winter 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 ("winter solstice" is a part of...):

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

Antonym:

summer solstice (June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point)

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