All 13 Uses
summer solstice
in
The Lightning Thief
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- The summer solstice deadline—†
Chpt 2 *summer solstice = day of the year with the longest daylight (in one hemisphere)
- What's the summer solstice dead-line?†
Chpt 2
- When she saw my eyes open, she asked, "What will happen at the summer solstice?"†
Chpt 5
- You asked me something about the summer solstice.†
Chpt 7
- Grover mentioned the summer solstice.†
Chpt 7
- And if it isn't returned by summer solstice, there's going to be trouble.†
Chpt 7
- Zeus has demanded that Poseidon return the bolt by the summer solstice.†
Chpt 9
- And get it back to Olympus before the summer solstice, in ten days.†
Chpt 9
- At this rate, we'd never make it to L.A. alive, much less before the summer solstice.†
Chpt 11
- Toward the end of our second day on the train, June 13, eight days before the summer solstice, we passed through some golden hills and over the Mississippi River into St. Louis.†
Chpt 13
- We had only one day left until the summer solstice.†
Chpt 16
- I didn't know how we were ever going to find the entrance to the Underworld by tomorrow, the summer solstice.†
Chpt 17
- Somehow, I knew what time it was: early morning, June 21, the day of the summer solstice.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(summer solstice) day of the year with the longest stretch of daylight in one hemisphere; in more exact terms, the moment when the Sun appears farthest from the equator in that hemisphere's skyAstronomers define the summer solstice as a single instant in time, but in everyday speech we usually call the whole calendar day the "summer solstice." The exact date shifts slightly from year to year, but in the northern hemisphere it is usually around June 21, and in the southern hemisphere it is usually around December 21.
When it is the summer solstice in one hemisphere, it is the winter solstice in the other. Many cultures have marked the solstices with festivals and buildings carefully aligned to the Sun’s position, from Egyptian tombs to Stonehenge. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)