midday

Meanings

nounmidday (countable and uncountable, plural middays)

plural middays · alternative mid-day

countableuncountableNoon; twelve o'clock during the day.
One indicates the time as one hour after twelve midday or midnight.
2 more examples
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
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

Synonyms & antonyms

nounNoon; twelve o'clock during the day.

Opposite

midnight

More synonyms by meaning

nounthe middle of the day

Similar

noontwelve noonhigh noon noonday noontide

Broader

hour time of day

Also see

acme apex height high noon high point meridian middle day mount everest nones noon noonday noontide noon-time noontime paroxysm peak perihelion pinnacle sext

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Old Englishmiddæġ“midday, noon”
Middle Englishmidday
Englishmidday

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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