Solstice is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SOLSTICE in dictionary:

VERB:
• A stopping or standing still of the sun.
• The point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point of the sign Cancer and the first point of the sign Capricorn, the former being the summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; -- so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward or southward motion.
• The time of the sun\'s passing the solstices, or solstitial points, namely, about June 21 and December 21. See Illust. in Appendix.
NOUN:
• the time when the sun is farthest from the equator
• either of the two times in the year, the summer solstice and the winter solstice, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days.
• either the shortest (in winter) or longest (in summer) day of the year
• either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the time of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator

Words related to SOLSTICE

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Words that contain SOLSTICE

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How to use SOLSTICE in a sentence

• The days are still very short, the sun having but just passed the winter solstice.
• The result of the experimental investigation carried out during the summer solstice of 1884 may be thus briefly stated.
• The night of the summer solstice and other stories of the Russian war.
• In this system the year began in the winter solstice.
• This effect, though not great, is not to be neglected when the sun is in or near our summer solstice, which is the season of these easterly breezes.
• In the mid-nineteenth century it was customary to speak of Christmas and the Twelve Nights as a continuation of the holy season kept by our forefathers at the winter solstice.
• Everything being now ready, all the hands on the station turned out to see us off, and we started on our journey, not very long after the summer solstice of 1870.
• As the tortoise is often identified with the summer solstice, as previously pointed out, so the snail is associated with the winter solstice.
• Men saw the sun journeying across the heavens every day in a slightly different track, then standing still, as it were, at the solstice, and then returning on its way back.
• The remaining two mark both its rising on the Winter Solstice, and its setting on the Summer Solstice.
• Stonehenge is so arranged as to mark the sun at its Summer Solstice.
• That the twelve prophetic days are those which immediately precede the solstice puts their endowment with prophetic power very far back into antiquity.
• By the aid of such devices as the native priests have at their command they are enabled to fix the date of the winter solstice with a fair degree of accuracy.
• Orion then also, at the Winter Solstice, rose at noon, and at night seemed to be in search of the Sun.
• Again it occupied it at midnight, at the Winter Solstice, the precise moment when the year commenced.
• Aphanison represented disappearance of the Sun at Winter Solstice, 377-u.
• Egyptians adored the Sun as an infant at the Winter Solstice, 465-u.
• Solstice, Winter, Mother-night, the longest night in the year, festival of the, 368-u.
• Summer Solstice beginning of Egyptian New Year, 467-m.
• Summer Solstice marked the rising cf the Nile, 467-u.
• Sun hesitates at Winter Solstice whether to descend or retrace, 445-u.
• Sun said to have been slain at the Winter Solstice, 447-l.
• Virgo at the Winter Solstice rose with the Sun in her bosom, 455-l.
• Year of the Romans commenced at the Winter Solstice, 464-l.
• When they are lined at this season they pup about the solstice, for they go three months.
• It was held in honour of the sun at the solstice in June.
• Under the Tcheou dynasty a change in the calendar led to shifting the fire-festival from spring to the summer solstice, but afterwards it was brought back to its original date.
• We have already seen that in Russia the summer solstice or Eve of St.
• The coincidence of the festival with the summer solstice can hardly be accidental.
• It lies under the tropic of Cancer, as is evident, says Pliny the elder, from there being no shadow projected at noon at the summer solstice.
• In December comes the Soyaluna, or winter solstice ceremony, to turn the sun back from his path of departure and insure his return with length of days to the Indian country.

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