midsummer
Height of July
Midsummer is the middle of summer, typically late June or early July in the Northern Hemisphere.
The word often refers to the summer solstice around June 21, the longest day of the year: a midsummer festival, midsummer madness.
Shakespeare's play gives the word dreamlike, enchanted associations. (Capitalized Midsummer may refer specifically to the holiday or the play.)
June
Sixth calendar month
sunset · solar · celestial · astronomy · calendar · seasons · latitude · tropic · declination · equinox
lush
Richly abundant in growth
- flourishingProspering vigorously
- bloomingProducing flowers now
- verdantLush with plants
ripe · bountiful · growth · fullness · gardens · meadows · wildflowers · greenery · fertile · teeming
- Midsummermidsommar, solstice, longest day, midnight sun, solstice rituals
- Scandinavian lifestylehygge, sauna, Nordic design, northern lights, midnight sun
- Baltic folklorefolk beliefs, nature worship, pagan rituals, ancestral spirits, ancestor veneration
- Baltic paganismMara, thunder god, sun goddess, earth goddess, world tree
- celebrationsgraduation, festival, party, wedding, fireworks
- festivalsfestival, festivals, carnival, carnivals, Carnival
midsummermidwinter
Season's coldest period
winter solstice · dead of winter · shortest day · longest night · wintertime
midsummermidwinter
Season's coldest period
dead of winter · bitter cold · freeze · frost
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Midsummer Night's DreamShakespearean fairy romantic comedy
- midsummer festivalSeasonal warm-weather celebration
- midsummer eveEvening before summer solstice
- midsummer madnessIrrational behavior during hottest months
- Midsummer NightLongest day's evening