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Dutch
Etymology
From middernacht + zon, probably a calque.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɪ.dərˈnɑxtˌsɔn/
- Hyphenation: mid‧der‧nacht‧zon
Noun
middernachtzon f (plural middernachtzonnen, diminutive middernachtzonnetje n)
- midnight sun
- 1839, "Tornea", Nederlandsch magazijn, gebr. Diederichs (publ.), page 63.
Het stadhuis is een net houten gebouw met eenen 100 voeten hoogen toren en in de kleine kerk, van welker klokkentoren de koning van Zweden Karel XI en een groot aantal andere doorluchtige en beroemde reizigers, de middernachtzon waarnamen, bevat onder verscheidene andere gedachtenis-brieven, ook het eigenhandig bericht van dien vorst, betreffende zijn bezoek in den nacht van den 14 op den 15 Junij 1694, en zijne waarneming der zon om middernacht in het noorden van den horizon.- The town hall is a neat wooden building with a 100 feet tall tower, and the small church, from the bell tower of which Charles XI, the king of Sweden, and many other illustrious and famous travellers observed the midnight sun, contains among several other memorial letters the monarch's handwritten report of his visit on the night of 14 to 15 June 1694, and his observation of the sun at midnight on the northern horizon.