"midday" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /mɪdˈdeɪ/ Audio: en-us-midday.ogg , En-uk-midday.ogg Forms: middays [plural], mid-day [alternative]
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”), {{af|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 Hypernyms: daytime Holonyms: day Meronyms: lunch, nooning [archaic, dialectal] Related terms: early morning, dawn, first light, postdawn, morning, afternoon, evening, dusk, night
    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, Times of day Synonyms: nones, noontide, 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]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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