MIDNIGHT SUN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does midnight sun mean? 

• MIDNIGHT SUN (noun)
  The noun MIDNIGHT SUN has 1 sense:

1. the sun visible at midnight (inside the Arctic or Antarctic Circles)

  Familiarity information: MIDNIGHT SUN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDNIGHT SUN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sun visible at midnight (inside the Arctic or Antarctic Circles)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("midnight sun" is a kind of...):

atmospheric phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere)

 Context examples 

She opened with hospitable haste, and started as if another ghost had come to surprise her, for there stood a tall bearded gentleman, beaming on her from the darkness like a midnight sun.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They went across divides in summer blizzards, shivered under the midnight sun on naked mountains between the timber line and the eternal snows, dropped into summer valleys amid swarming gnats and flies, and in the shadows of glaciers picked strawberries and flowers as ripe and fair as any the Southland could boast.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)