winter solstice in English

noun
1
the solstice that marks the onset of winter, at the time of the shortest day, about December 22 in the northern hemisphere and June 21 in the southern hemisphere.
Of course the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice is the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere.

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1. 8 Winter Solstice, happy, delicious to eat the dumpling.

2. “Each year, Attis was born at the winter solstice.” In …

3. We have essentially the death of the sun on the winter solstice.

4. Ah Balling means Glutinous Rice Balls, traditionally eaten during the Winter Solstice and Lantern Festival

5. Careened: Winter Solstice in Madierus is the perfect treat for fans of Bey Deckard’s Baal’s Heart series

6. Rather, that is a description of Saturnalia —a week-long pagan Roman festival associated with the winter solstice (depicted on opposite page).

7. That was when pagans indulged in orgies during the festivals of both the Roman Saturnalia and the Celtic and German feast of winter solstice.

8. Bamboozlement Our operative word for this month of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Mawlid un Nabi (Muhammad’s Birthday), the Winter Solstice, Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, and New Year

9. It used to be a custom for the daughter-in-law to make a pair of traditional Korean socks and on the winter solstice give them to her mother-in-law.

10. Commenting on further developments, the magazine History Today says: “The most reverberant of all Aurelian’s actions is perhaps the establishment, in AD 274, of an annual festival of the sun falling on the winter solstice, December 25th.

11. Origin of Brumal Latin brūmālis from brūma winter from brevima (diēs) the shortest (day) or winter solstice archaic superlative of brevis short mregh-u- in Indo-European roots From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

12. The season of the year between summer and winter, during which the weather becomes cooler and many plants become dormant, extending in the Northern Hemisphere from the Autumnal equinox to the winter solstice and popularly considered to include the months of September, October, and November; fall.

13. Aliens, Bitcoins and Communes, oh my! Those may very well be the new ABCs of the 2020s and beyond, as the world enters what we’ve coined The Aquarian Decade—a period that began with the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn at 0°29′ Aquarius at the 2020 winter solstice.

14. Using his alphabetical notation, Aristotle notes that during the summer solstice the sun rises at Z (Caecias) and sets at E (Argestes); during the equinox, it rises at B (Apeliotes) and sets at A (Zephyrus), and finally during the winter solstice it rises at Δ (Eurus) and sets at Γ (Lips).

15. What is notable about the megalithic Junapani stone circles are cup marks, or Cupules, that are cut into some of the stones making up the circles.The stones that have the Cupules are positioned around the circles in a way that suggests that they mark specific directions, such as the direction of the winter solstice sunrise