Usually means: Shortest day of the year.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word winter solstice:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. winter solstice: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. winter solstice: Merriam-Webster
  3. winter solstice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. winter solstice: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. winter solstice: Collins English Dictionary
  6. winter solstice: Vocabulary.com
  7. winter-solstice, winter solstice: Wordnik
  8. winter solstice: Wiktionary
  9. winter solstice: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. winter solstice: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. winter solstice: Dictionary.com
  12. Winter Solstice (film), Winter Solstice, Winter solstice: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. winter solstice: Rhymezone
  14. winter-solstice: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. winter solstice: FreeDictionary.org
  16. winter solstice: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. winter solstice: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. winter solstice: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Winter Solstice: Holidays Around the World

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Winter Solstice: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Mars Glossary (No longer online)
  3. WINTER SOLSTICE: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. winter solstice: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See winter_solstices as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (winter solstice)

noun:  (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.

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