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), 冬节 (dung1 zit3)
- Hakka: 冬至 (tûng-chṳ), 冬節／冬节, 冬节 (tûng-chiet)
- Mandarin: 冬至 (zh) (dōngzhì), 冬節／冬节 (zh) (dōngjié), 冬节 (zh) (dōngjié), 南至 (zh) (nánzhì)
- Min Nan: 冬至 (zh-min-nan) (tang-chì), 冬節／冬节, 冬节 (tang-cheh, tang-choeh)
- Czech: zimní slunovrat m
- Danish: vintersolhverv (da) n
- Estonian: talvine pööripäev
- Finnish: talvipäivänseisaus (fi)
- French: solstice d’hiver (fr) m
- Galician: solsticio de inverno (gl) m
- Georgian: ზამთრის ნაბუნიობა (zamtris nabunioba), ზამთრის მზებუდობა (zamtris mzebudoba), ზამთრის მზისდგომა (zamtris mzisdgoma)
- German: Wintersonnenwende (de) f
- Greek: χειμερινό ηλιοστάσιο n (cheimerinó iliostásio)
- Icelandic: vetrarsólstöður f pl, vetrarsólhvörf n pl
- Irish: grianstad an gheimhridh m
- Italian: solstizio d'inverno m
- Japanese: 冬至 (ja) (とうじ, tōji)
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- Korean: 동지 (ko) (dongji) (冬至 (ko))
- Latin: brūma f
- Maori: te Ihu o Hinetakurua
- Navajo: haigo shá niighááh
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vintersolverv n
- Nynorsk: vintersolkverv m
- Polish: przesilenie zimowe (pl) n
- 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
- Spanish: solsticio de invierno m
- Swedish: vintersolstånd (sv) n
- Thai: เหมายัน (th) (hemayan)
- Vietnamese: đông chí (冬至)
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