how to pronounce midsummer

/ˈmɪdˈsʌmɚ/

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midsummer is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of midsummer in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… is in a midsummer night's dream he pops …”

meanings of midsummer

noun:

The period around the summer solstice; about 21st June in the northern hemisphere.
A pagan holiday or Wiccan Sabbat.
The middle of summer.
Midsummer Day, the English quarter day.
The first day of summer.

adjective:

Happening in the middle of summer.

name:

A pagan holiday and Wiccan Sabbat.

midsummer frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word midsummer occurs in english on average 1.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics midsummer can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that midsummer can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;