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sunstead

noun
/ˈsʌnstɛd/UK

Etymology

From sun + stead (“place, point, spot, position”), a calque of Latin sōlstitium. Compare Old English sunnstede.

  1. inherited from *stéh₂tis✻
  2. inherited from *stadiz✻
  3. inherited from stede
  4. inherited from sted
  5. compounded as sunstead — “sun + stead”

Definitions

  1. A solstice.

    • 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.
    • Sun-ſteads or Tropicks

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA