vernal equinox

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Synonyms for vernal equinox

noun season following winter

Antonyms for vernal equinox

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noun. season following winter

Word Origin & History

late 14c., from Old French equinoce (12c.) or directly from Medieval Latin equinoxium "equality of night (and day)," from Latin aequinoctium "the equinoxes," from aequus "equal" (see equal (adj.)) + nox (genitive noctis) "night" (see night). The Old English translation was efnniht. Related: Equinoctial.

Example Sentences for vernal equinox

And yet this was only the day of the vernal equinox; it was most extraordinary.

Marriages are celebrated at the beginning of the vernal equinox.

The resurrection of several of them about the time of the vernal equinox.

That is, he is in each sign at the Vernal Equinox 2,155 years.

Let me enumerate a few points with regard to the Vernal Equinox.

At the time they were first named the vernal equinox began with Taurus.

At that epoch the vernal equinox happened on the 11th instead of the 21st of March.

Yet with the approach of the vernal equinox I began to overhaul my buckskins.

It is the first of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March.

The sun, after entering the sign Aries and passing through one eighth of it, determines the vernal equinox.

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