midday
noun/mɪdˈdeɪ/ · /ˈmɪd.deɪ/
Etymology From Middle English midday, from Old English middæġ (“midday, noon”), equivalent to mid- + day. Cognate with Scots midday (“midday”), West Frisian middei (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Dutch middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), German Mittag (“noon, midday, late morning, early afternoon”), Danish middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Norwegian Bokmål middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Swedish middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”).
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Noon; twelve o'clock during the day.
- One indicates the time as one hour after twelve midday or midnight.
- The list of potential victories you could achieve with your reset is long, and it includes a fafillion wins that have nothing to do with the scale: Fewer blemishes. Thicker hair. Less join pain. Reduced cravings. No midday energy slump.2016, Melissa Hartwig, Food Freedom Forever:
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- But on Friday, a U.S. Air Force plane carrying more than 70 deportees arrived around midday in the city of San Pedro Sula, about 100 miles northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital.2025 February 1, Annie Correal, “U.S. Military Planes Deliver Deportees to Honduras”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2025:
- Synonyms
- nones, noontide, 12 o'clock, 12 noon, 12 p.m., high noon, meridian, meridiem, midday, noon, noonday, noontime, noon-time, sext, twelve, undern, undermeal, undertide
- Antonyms
- midnight
- Related terms
- early morning, dawn, first light, postdawn, morning, afternoon, evening, dusk, night
- Hypernyms
- daytime
- Holonyms
- day