midwintern.adj.

Brit.

/ˌmɪdˈwɪntə/, U.S.

/ˈmɪdˈwɪn(t)ər/

Forms: see mid adj. and winter n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mid adj., winter n.¹

Etymology: < mid adj. + winter n.¹ Compare Old Frisian midwinter (West Frisian midwinter ), Middle Dutch midwinter , middewinter (Dutch (chiefly regional) midwinter ), Middle Low German midwinter , middewinter , Middle High German mittewinter (German Mittwinter ), Icelandic miðvetur (in Old Icelandic only in the syntactic combination miðr-vetr ), Old Swedish midhvinter (Swedish midvinter ), Danish midvinter . The compound was probably formed independently in the various Germanic languages (compare midday n., midnight n., midsummer n.). Compare yule n.In Old English the syntactic combination of adjective and noun (as opposed to true compound) is attested earlier, compare:eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 878 Her hiene bestęl se here on midne winter. Compare also the parallel Old English compound middanwinter (for middan- see middenerd n.):OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1016 Her on þissum geare com Cnut mid his here and Eadric ealdorman mid him..&wendon þa to Wærincwicscire ingang þære middanwintres tidæ.

A. n.

The middle of winter; spec. †(a) Christmas Day (25 December) (obsolete); (b) the day of the winter solstice (21 or 22 December in the northern hemisphere, and 21 or 22 June in the southern), or the period around this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > winter

midwinterOE

wintertideOE

winterOE

wintertimea1398

hiemsc1450

snow-time1535

dead of winter1548

after-winter1593

back-winter1599

snow1778

ice queen1818

old-fashioned winter1829

society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Christmas > [noun]

yulea900

yule-daya900

midwinter tideeOE

midwinterOE

Christmas DayOE

ChristmasOE

good tideOE

midwinter dayOE

Christenmasc1330

nativity1389

Nowellc1400

noel1435

pacea1450

Xmas1551

yule-tide1572

Christ-tide1581

Christmastide1590

Christmastime1617

yule time1787

Xmassing1788

festive season1794

Crimbo1928

Chrissie1946

eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 827 Her mona aþistrode on middes wintres mæsseniht.]

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xiii. 286 Heo gelyfde þæs engles bodunge & swa mid geleafan onfeng god on hyre innoðe, and hine bær, oð middewintres mæssedæg.

OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1076 Se kyngc wæs þa þone midwinter on Westmynstre.

lOE Prognostics (Hatton) (2007) 496 Gif seo midwinter bið on wodnesdæg, þonne bið heard winter.

a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 55 (MED) We auen forgult ure saules wille siðe mid winter com hiderwardes and ouercumen it.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 7160 He sende after is barony at midewinter mid him to be.

c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 77 Whas neuer syche noblay..Mad in mydwynter in þa weste marchys!

1590 J. Greenwood Answere Giffords Def. 25 You compel men to pray against thunder and lightning at midd winter.

a1667 P. Mundy Trav. (1925) IV. xxxi. 5 Itt Flowrisheth aboutt Middewinter by some straunge operation in Nature.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 59 Nor cease your sowing till Mid-winter ends.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. ix. 208 The Clock struck five..an Hour at which (as it was now Midwinter) the dirty Fingers of Night would have drawn her sable Curtain.

1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 15 It was midwinter; snowy, foggy, sleety, wet.

1882 A. W. Ward Dickens iii. 49 A journey across the Atlantic in midwinter is no child's-play even at the present day.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 118/4 They can be planted not only in the fall but well into mid-winter.

1992 Operation Forestry Northwest June 27/2 The season is mid-winter and despite the snow and cold, construction crews are outside.

†B. adj.

poetic. Cold as midwinter. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 29 Because youth and maid Midwinter words of hope that day had said Before the altars.

1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket i. ii. 41 'Tis known you are midwinter to all women.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

midwinter break n.

ΚΠ

1976 Toronto Star 5 Mar. 32/1 Humber students are now away from school for reading week—their mid-winter break.

1998 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 8 Feb. c4/2 The league will go dark until Feb. 25, leaving many players with the first midwinter break of their lives.

midwinter morning n.

ΚΠ

1896 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 203 How well the rapture of that frosty midwinter morning is remembered.

midwinter snow n.

ΚΠ

1877 W. C. Bryant Sella 63 Two slippers, white As the midwinter snow.

1943 Sci. & Mech. Spring 49/2 Here is one of the American air-sleds undergoing tests and improvements in midwinter snows near St. Ignace, Mich.

C2.

midwinter day n. (also midwinter's day) †(a) Christmas Day, 25 December (obsolete); (b) a day in midwinter.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Christmas > [noun]

yulea900

yule-daya900

midwinter tideeOE

midwinterOE

Christmas DayOE

ChristmasOE

good tideOE

midwinter dayOE

Christenmasc1330

nativity1389

Nowellc1400

noel1435

pacea1450

Xmas1551

yule-tide1572

Christ-tide1581

Christmastide1590

Christmastime1617

yule time1787

Xmassing1788

festive season1794

Crimbo1928

Chrissie1946

OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1066 Ða on midwintres dæg hine halgode to kynge Ealdred arcebiscop on Westmynstre.

?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1140 Te Lundenisce folc him underfeng, & senden æfter þe ærcebiscop Willelm Curbuil, & halechede him to kinge on midewintre dæi.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11430 A midewinteres dæi.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 19 Me schulde synge þre masses wiþ Gloria in excelsis a mydwynter day [L. in festo Natalis Domini].

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 122 Þe fourþe [fastynge tyme] is in wintir and is in þe laste hole woke tofore mydwinter day.

1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iii. 73 On Midwinter-day, eight hundred years back.

1892 Ld. Tennyson To Master of Balliol iii. 4 in Œnone On this white midwinter day.

1988 Ecology 69 1196/2 Ten hours..was assumed the maximum time available to forage during a midwinter day in southern Arizona.

1991 Gardener Jan. 36/2 In a fruit growing area there used to be a general smell of tar oil on calm midwinter days as winter washes were applied on all the farms.

† midwinter eve n. (also midwinter's eve) Obsolete Christmas Eve, 24 December.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Christmas Eve > [noun]

midwinter nighta1200

yule night1303

midwinter evea1400

Christmas Evenc1400

midwinter evena1450

yule-even1473

Christmas Eve1548

a1400 (a1325) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Trin. Cambr.) (1887) App. XX. 848 (MED) A midewinteres eue to bedeforde he com.

† midwinter even n. (also midwinter's even) Obsolete = midwinter eve n.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Christmas Eve > [noun]

midwinter nighta1200

yule night1303

midwinter evea1400

Christmas Evenc1400

midwinter evena1450

yule-even1473

Christmas Eve1548

OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. 18 (rubric) Ðys godspel gebyrað on mydewyntres mæsseæfen.]

a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 4078 (MED) Gerleyne..in mydwyntrus-ȝevyn to þat chirche dude gone.

midwinter night n. (also midwinter's night) †(a) = midwinter eve n. (obsolete); (b) a night in midwinter.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Christmas Eve > [noun]

midwinter nighta1200

yule night1303

midwinter evea1400

Christmas Evenc1400

midwinter evena1450

yule-even1473

Christmas Eve1548

a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 7 Swo abiden ure helendes tocume þat neihlacheð..and beð on mide wintres niht.

1372 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 72 (MED) Þer..i þe bare On midwenter nith, In maydened with-outen kare.

a1425 (?a1400) Bk. Priue Counseling in P. Hodgson Cloud of Unknowing (1944) 146 (MED) Þe derknes of þe moneschine in a mist at midwinters niȝt.

a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 51 Þys geanology þat ys red yn mydwyntyr-nyght.

1864 W. C. Bryant Thirty Poems 195 These are the northern lights, such as thou seest In the midwinter nights.

1917 S. Sassoon Old Huntsman 22 It was past twelve on a mid-winter night.

1978 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 38 412 At the end of the story..he traces the same course in the mid-winter night.

† midwinter tide n. (also midwinter's tide) Obsolete the time around midwinter; spec. Christmas time.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Christmas > [noun]

yulea900

yule-daya900

midwinter tideeOE

midwinterOE

Christmas DayOE

ChristmasOE

good tideOE

midwinter dayOE

Christenmasc1330

nativity1389

Nowellc1400

noel1435

pacea1450

Xmas1551

yule-tide1572

Christ-tide1581

Christmastide1590

Christmastime1617

yule time1787

Xmassing1788

festive season1794

Crimbo1928

Chrissie1946

eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) v. xiii. 436 In midwintres tide, ymb hiene [flowendum] þæm sticcum halfbrocenra iisa, ða he seolfa oft gebræc.

OE Laws of Cnut (Nero) i. Prol. 278 On ðære halgan midewintres tide.

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1016 Wendon þa to Wæringscire innon þære middewintres tide.

c1330 (?c1300) Amis & Amiloun (Auch.) (1937) 1887 It was midwinter tide.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	midwinter
释义	midwintern.adj. Brit. /ˌmɪdˈwɪntə/, U.S. /ˈmɪdˈwɪn(t)ər/ Forms: see mid adj. and winter n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mid adj., winter n.¹ Etymology: < mid adj. + winter n.¹ Compare Old Frisian midwinter (West Frisian midwinter ), Middle Dutch midwinter , middewinter (Dutch (chiefly regional) midwinter ), Middle Low German midwinter , middewinter , Middle High German mittewinter (German Mittwinter ), Icelandic miðvetur (in Old Icelandic only in the syntactic combination miðr-vetr ), Old Swedish midhvinter (Swedish midvinter ), Danish midvinter . The compound was probably formed independently in the various Germanic languages (compare midday n., midnight n., midsummer n.). Compare yule n.In Old English the syntactic combination of adjective and noun (as opposed to true compound) is attested earlier, compare:eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 878 Her hiene bestęl se here on midne winter. Compare also the parallel Old English compound middanwinter (for middan- see middenerd n.):OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1016 Her on þissum geare com Cnut mid his here and Eadric ealdorman mid him..&wendon þa to Wærincwicscire ingang þære middanwintres tidæ. A. n. The middle of winter; spec. †(a) Christmas Day (25 December) (obsolete); (b) the day of the winter solstice (21 or 22 December in the northern hemisphere, and 21 or 22 June in the southern), or the period around this. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > winter midwinterOE wintertideOE winterOE wintertimea1398 hiemsc1450 snow-time1535 dead of winter1548 after-winter1593 back-winter1599 snow1778 ice queen1818 old-fashioned winter1829 society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Christmas > [noun] yulea900 yule-daya900 midwinter tideeOE midwinterOE Christmas DayOE ChristmasOE good tideOE midwinter dayOE Christenmasc1330 nativity1389 Nowellc1400 noel1435 pacea1450 Xmas1551 yule-tide1572 Christ-tide1581 Christmastide1590 Christmastime1617 yule time1787 Xmassing1788 festive season1794 Crimbo1928 Chrissie1946 eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 827 Her mona aþistrode on middes wintres mæsseniht.] OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xiii. 286 Heo gelyfde þæs engles bodunge & swa mid geleafan onfeng god on hyre innoðe, and hine bær, oð middewintres mæssedæg. OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1076 Se kyngc wæs þa þone midwinter on Westmynstre. lOE Prognostics (Hatton) (2007) 496 Gif seo midwinter bið on wodnesdæg, þonne bið heard winter. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 55 (MED) We auen forgult ure saules wille siðe mid winter com hiderwardes and ouercumen it. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 7160 He sende after is barony at midewinter mid him to be. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 77 Whas neuer syche noblay..Mad in mydwynter in þa weste marchys! 1590 J. Greenwood Answere Giffords Def. 25 You compel men to pray against thunder and lightning at midd winter. a1667 P. Mundy Trav. (1925) IV. xxxi. 5 Itt Flowrisheth aboutt Middewinter by some straunge operation in Nature. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 59 Nor cease your sowing till Mid-winter ends. View more context for this quotation 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. ix. 208 The Clock struck five..an Hour at which (as it was now Midwinter) the dirty Fingers of Night would have drawn her sable Curtain. View more context for this quotation 1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 15 It was midwinter; snowy, foggy, sleety, wet. 1882 A. W. Ward Dickens iii. 49 A journey across the Atlantic in midwinter is no child's-play even at the present day. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 118/4 They can be planted not only in the fall but well into mid-winter. 1992 Operation Forestry Northwest June 27/2 The season is mid-winter and despite the snow and cold, construction crews are outside. †B. adj. poetic. Cold as midwinter. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 29 Because youth and maid Midwinter words of hope that day had said Before the altars. 1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket i. ii. 41 'Tis known you are midwinter to all women. Compounds C1. General attributive. midwinter break n. ΚΠ 1976 Toronto Star 5 Mar. 32/1 Humber students are now away from school for reading week—their mid-winter break. 1998 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 8 Feb. c4/2 The league will go dark until Feb. 25, leaving many players with the first midwinter break of their lives. midwinter morning n. ΚΠ 1896 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 203 How well the rapture of that frosty midwinter morning is remembered. midwinter snow n. ΚΠ 1877 W. C. Bryant Sella 63 Two slippers, white As the midwinter snow. 1943 Sci. & Mech. Spring 49/2 Here is one of the American air-sleds undergoing tests and improvements in midwinter snows near St. Ignace, Mich. C2. midwinter day n. (also midwinter's day) †(a) Christmas Day, 25 December (obsolete); (b) a day in midwinter. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Christmas > [noun] yulea900 yule-daya900 midwinter tideeOE midwinterOE Christmas DayOE ChristmasOE good tideOE midwinter dayOE Christenmasc1330 nativity1389 Nowellc1400 noel1435 pacea1450 Xmas1551 yule-tide1572 Christ-tide1581 Christmastide1590 Christmastime1617 yule time1787 Xmassing1788 festive season1794 Crimbo1928 Chrissie1946 OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1066 Ða on midwintres dæg hine halgode to kynge Ealdred arcebiscop on Westmynstre. ?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1140 Te Lundenisce folc him underfeng, & senden æfter þe ærcebiscop Willelm Curbuil, & halechede him to kinge on midewintre dæi. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11430 A midewinteres dæi. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 19 Me schulde synge þre masses wiþ Gloria in excelsis a mydwynter day [L. in festo Natalis Domini]. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 122 Þe fourþe [fastynge tyme] is in wintir and is in þe laste hole woke tofore mydwinter day. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iii. 73 On Midwinter-day, eight hundred years back. 1892 Ld. Tennyson To Master of Balliol iii. 4 in Œnone On this white midwinter day. 1988 Ecology 69 1196/2 Ten hours..was assumed the maximum time available to forage during a midwinter day in southern Arizona. 1991 Gardener Jan. 36/2 In a fruit growing area there used to be a general smell of tar oil on calm midwinter days as winter washes were applied on all the farms. † midwinter eve n. (also midwinter's eve) Obsolete Christmas Eve, 24 December. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Christmas Eve > [noun] midwinter nighta1200 yule night1303 midwinter evea1400 Christmas Evenc1400 midwinter evena1450 yule-even1473 Christmas Eve1548 a1400 (a1325) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Trin. Cambr.) (1887) App. XX. 848 (MED) A midewinteres eue to bedeforde he com. † midwinter even n. (also midwinter's even) Obsolete = midwinter eve n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Christmas Eve > [noun] midwinter nighta1200 yule night1303 midwinter evea1400 Christmas Evenc1400 midwinter evena1450 yule-even1473 Christmas Eve1548 OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. 18 (rubric) Ðys godspel gebyrað on mydewyntres mæsseæfen.] a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 4078 (MED) Gerleyne..in mydwyntrus-ȝevyn to þat chirche dude gone. midwinter night n. (also midwinter's night) †(a) = midwinter eve n. (obsolete); (b) a night in midwinter. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Christmas Eve > [noun] midwinter nighta1200 yule night1303 midwinter evea1400 Christmas Evenc1400 midwinter evena1450 yule-even1473 Christmas Eve1548 a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 7 Swo abiden ure helendes tocume þat neihlacheð..and beð on mide wintres niht. 1372 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 72 (MED) Þer..i þe bare On midwenter nith, In maydened with-outen kare. a1425 (?a1400) Bk. Priue Counseling in P. Hodgson Cloud of Unknowing (1944) 146 (MED) Þe derknes of þe moneschine in a mist at midwinters niȝt. a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 51 Þys geanology þat ys red yn mydwyntyr-nyght. 1864 W. C. Bryant Thirty Poems 195 These are the northern lights, such as thou seest In the midwinter nights. 1917 S. Sassoon Old Huntsman 22 It was past twelve on a mid-winter night. 1978 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 38 412 At the end of the story..he traces the same course in the mid-winter night. † midwinter tide n. (also midwinter's tide) Obsolete the time around midwinter; spec. Christmas time. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Christmas > [noun] yulea900 yule-daya900 midwinter tideeOE midwinterOE Christmas DayOE ChristmasOE good tideOE midwinter dayOE Christenmasc1330 nativity1389 Nowellc1400 noel1435 pacea1450 Xmas1551 yule-tide1572 Christ-tide1581 Christmastide1590 Christmastime1617 yule time1787 Xmassing1788 festive season1794 Crimbo1928 Chrissie1946 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) v. xiii. 436 In midwintres tide, ymb hiene [flowendum] þæm sticcum halfbrocenra iisa, ða he seolfa oft gebræc. OE Laws of Cnut (Nero) i. Prol. 278 On ðære halgan midewintres tide. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1016 Wendon þa to Wæringscire innon þære middewintres tide. c1330 (?c1300) Amis & Amiloun (Auch.) (1937) 1887 It was midwinter tide. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.eOE
随便看	seismologists seismologue seismology seismometer seismometers seismometric seismometrical seismometries seismometrograph seismometry seismonastic seismonasty seismoscope seismoscopes seismoscopic seismotectonic seismotectonic line seismotherapy seismotic seisms seistan seistan wind seitan seities seity