English
Noun
winter solstice (usually uncountable, plural winter solstices)
- (astronomy) The moment when the Earth is in that point of its orbit where the northern or southern hemisphere is most inclined away from the sun.
Coordinate terms
Translations
the moment when the hemisphere is most inclined away from the sun
- Bulgarian: зимно слънцестоене n (zimno slǎncestoene)
- Catalan: solstici d'hivern m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 冬至 (dung1 zi3), 冬節, 冬节 (dung1 zit3)
- Hakka: 冬至 (tûng-chṳ), 冬節, 冬节 (tûng-chiet)
- Mandarin: 冬至 (zh) (dōngzhì), 冬節 (zh), 冬节 (zh) (dōngjié), 南至 (zh) (nánzhì)
- Min Nan: 冬至 (zh-min-nan) (tang-chì), 冬節, 冬节 (tang-cheh, tang-choeh)
- Czech: zimní slunovrat m
- Danish: solhverv (da)
- Finnish: talvipäivänseisaus (fi)
- French: solstice d'hiver (fr) m
- Georgian: ზამთრის ნაბუნიობა (zamtris nabunioba)
- German: Wintersonnenwende (de) f
- Greek: χειμερινό ηλιοστάσιο n (cheimerinó iliostásio)
- Icelandic: vetrarsólstöður f pl, vetrarsólhvörf n pl
- Irish: grianstad an gheimhridh m
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- Italian: solstizio d'inverno m
- Japanese: 冬至 (ja) (とうじ, tōji)
- Korean: 동지 (ko) (dongji) (冬至 (ko))
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vintersolverv n
- Nynorsk: vintersolkverv m
- Portuguese: solstício de inverno m
- Romanian: solstițiu de iarnă n
- Russian: зи́мнее солнцестоя́ние n (zímneje solncestojánije)
- Scottish Gaelic: grian-stad geamhraidh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: краткодневница f, краткодневица f
- Roman: kratkodnevnica f, kratkodnevica (sh) f
- Swedish: vintersolstånd (sv) n
- Thai: เหมายัน (th) (hemayan)
- Vietnamese: đông chí (冬至)
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