"midday" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /mɪdˈdeɪ/ Audio: en-us-midday.ogg , En-uk-midday.ogg Forms: middays [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪ 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”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|midday}} Middle English midday, {{inh|en|ang|middæġ||midday, noon}} Old English middæġ (“midday, noon”), {{prefix|en|mid|day}} mid- + day, {{cog|sco|midday||midday}} Scots midday (“midday”), {{cog|fy|middei||midday, noon, afternoon}} West Frisian middei (“midday, noon, afternoon”), {{cog|nl|middag||midday, noon, afternoon}} Dutch middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), {{cog|de|Mittag||noon, midday, late morning, early afternoon}} German Mittag (“noon, midday, late morning, early afternoon”), {{cog|da|middag||midday, noon, afternoon}} Danish middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), {{cog|nb|middag||midday, noon, afternoon}} Norwegian Bokmål middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), {{cog|sv|middag||midday, noon, afternoon}} Swedish middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} midday (countable and uncountable, plural middays)
  1. Noon; twelve o'clock during the day. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Times of day Hypernyms: daytime Holonyms: day Meronyms: lunch, nooning [archaic, dialectal]
    Sense id: en-midday-en-noun-1u5d21g~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with mid-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Synonyms: nones, noontide, mid-day, 12 o'clock, 12 noon, 12 p.m. [proscribed, sometimes], high noon [idiomatic], meridian, meridiem [rare], midday, noon, noonday, noontime, noon-time, sext [historical], twelve, undern [dialectal], undermeal [obsolete], undertide [obsolete] Related terms: dawn, morning, noon, midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight, early morning, first light, postdawn Related terms (times of day): time of day

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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