"sunstead" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈsʌnstɛd/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sunstead.wav Forms: sunsteads [plural]
Etymology: From sun + stead (“place, point, spot, position”). Etymology templates: {{compound|en|sun|stead|t2=place, point, spot, position}} sun + stead (“place, point, spot, position”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} sunstead (plural sunsteads)
  1. (uncommon) A solstice. Tags: uncommon Categories (topical): Calendar, Sun Synonyms: sun-stead, sunnestead, sunsted [obsolete] Derived forms: summer sunstead, winter sunstead
    Sense id: en-sunstead-en-noun-V9w9DQgq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "The summer-sunnestead falleth out alwaies [in Italie] to be just upon the foure and twentie day of June, at what time as the sunne is entred eight degrees within Cancer."
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          "text": "Sun-ſteads or Tropicks",
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          "ref": "1832, The Anniversary Calendar, Natal Book, and Universal Mirror: Embracing Anniversaries of Persons, Events, Institutions, and Festivals, of All Denominations, Historical, Sacred, and Domestic, in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Age. … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: William Kidd, 228, Regent Street, →OCLC, page 413:",
          "text": "The Summer Solstice is the central point of the tropic (trepo, to turn), which begins upon the festival of Barnaby bright, and continues for three weeks. […] According to Olympiodorus, an Egyptian of the fifth century, the rising of the Dog-star was just twenty days after the estival \"sunsted.\"",
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          "text": "Sirius in the mouth of the watch dog vied in the dignity and importance of the significance of its ascent with the midnight appearance of Vindemiatrix in the left elbow of the headless virgin, on the horizon at the winter \"sunstead\" of six months later.",
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