Usually means: Longest or shortest daylight period.
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  1. solstice: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. solstice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. solstice: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. solstice: Collins English Dictionary
  5. solstice: Vocabulary.com
  6. Solstice, solstice: Wordnik
  7. solstice: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. solstice: Wiktionary
  9. solstice: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. solstice: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. solstice: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. solstice: Dictionary.com
  13. solstice: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. solstice: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Solstice: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. solstice: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. solstice: Rhymezone
  19. Solstice: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. solstice: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. solstice: Free Dictionary
  22. solstice: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. solstice: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. solstice: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Solstice: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

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  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. solstice: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SOLSTICE: Acronym Finder
  2. SOLSTICE: Masonic Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Solstice: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  3. Solstice: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. Weather Glossary (No longer online)
  5. SOLSTICE: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. solstice: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  4. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)

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noun:  One of the two points in the ecliptic at which the sun is furthest from the celestial equator. This corresponds to one of two days in the year when the day is either longest or shortest.

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