Definitions
the middle of winter
Word origin
From Middle English midwinter, mydwinter, mydwynter, from Old English midwinter, from Proto-West Germanic *midiwintru, from Proto-Germanic *midjawintruz (“midwinter”), equivalent to mid- + winter. Cognate with West Frisian midwinter (“midwinter”), Dutch midwinter (“midwinter”), German Mittwinter (“midwinter”), Danish midvinter (“midwinter”), Swedish midvinter (“midwinter”).
Used in a sentence
“IN midwinter the shadow that hung over John gathered into storm-cloud.”
“When my son was born, a midwinter child, he cried pitifully at the ward's lights, and settled to sleep only when he was laid in a big pram with a black hood under a black umbrella.”
“For more than a century, groundhogs have been midwinter luminaries, scampering into the spotlight on February 2 to divine whether the second half of the season will be cold or mild.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“deep cold season”9 letters
02“Coldest season”9 letters
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