[
US
/ˈsɔɫstɪs/
]
[ UK /sˈɒlstɪs/ ]
[ UK /sˈɒlstɪs/ ]
NOUN
- either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator
How To Use solstice In A Sentence
- The ancients built stone circles to greet the first rays of the solstice. Times, Sunday Times
- The clouds will gradually appear across the UK, usually reaching a peak around three weeks after the summer solstice. Times, Sunday Times
- Today is the winter solstice, the day with the shortest length of daylight in the year. Times, Sunday Times
- During the year 994 al-Khujandi used the very large instrument to observe a series of meridian transits of the sun near the solstices.
- My consolation is that the solstice will occur soon and the darkness recede in what I call the optimistic months of the year, though autumn has its moments. The Storm's Mixed Metaphors
- My best moment was waking up on the day of the summer solstice last year. Times, Sunday Times
- If anyone's interested in gifting Spooky and me with the distractions that help to make this existence bearable, in the form of Solstice gifts, we have both updated our Amazon wish lists. "I'm living in an age that calls darkness light..."
- Thousands troop up to the top of the Pyramid of the Sun to celebrate the summer solstice.
- The days begin to draw in after the summer solstice.
- This blows from the point where the sun sets at the summer solstice, and is the only wind that is diametrically opposite to Eurus. Meteorology