sunstead

== English == === Alternative forms === sun-stead sunnestead, sunsted (both obsolete) === Etymology === From sun +‎ stead (“place, point, spot, position”), a calque of Latin sōlstitium. Compare Old English sunnstede. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsʌnstɛd/ Hyphenation: sun‧stead === Noun === sunstead (plural sunsteads) (puristic, uncommon) A solstice. 1635, Pliny the Elder; Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the VVorld: Commonly Called, the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke, London: Printed by Adam Islip, and are to be sold by Iohn Grismond, in Ivy-lane at the signe of the Gun, OCLC 926240555, book XVIII, chapter xxvi; cited in Edward Smedley; Hugh James Rose; Henry John Rose, editors, Encyclopædia Metropolitana; or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge, on an Original Plan: Comprising the Twofold Advantage of a Philosophical and an Alphabetical Arrangement, with Appropriate Engravings, volume XXV (Miscellaneous and Lexicographical, volume 12), London: B. Fellowes [et al.], 1845, OCLC 20598255, page 237: 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. ==== Quotations ==== For more quotations using this term, see Citations:sunstead. ==== Derived terms ==== summer sunstead winter sunstead === References ===