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midday

[ noun mid-dey, -dey; adjective mid-dey ]

/ noun ˈmɪdˈdeɪ, -ˌdeɪ; adjective ˈmɪdˌdeɪ /

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noun

the middle of the day; noon or the time centering around noon.

adjective

of or relating to the middle part of the day: a midday news broadcast.

Origin of midday

before 1000; Middle English; Old English middæg. See mid-, day

Words nearby midday

midbrain, midcentury modern, midcourse, midcourse correction, midcult, midday, middelburg, middelmannetjie, middelskot, midden, middie

Example sentences from the Web for midday

The stench of the backed-up toilets combines with the fumes of garbage fermenting in the midday sun.

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He pulled the crucifix from under his shirt and it glinted in the bright midday sun.

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During a midday break in the trial, Kempton had lunch with Afeni.

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Alston had last seen Prince at midday, when the two walked to the store together.

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By midday, the Ukrainian government had confirmed that two of its choppers had been downed.

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The naval officer was there because the hour of the midday meal on board the cruiser did not coincide with lunch time on shore.

A Rock in the Baltic |Robert Barr
After this, Stephen sang night and morn and midday the songs he had sung—and Calote with him—in the year of pilgrimage.

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It was midday, then, on the tropic seas, and the horizon was closing in with clouds as of blood and vapours of stifling heat.

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Here they were, instead, at a little after midday, confronting sure ruin and probable death.

Ned, the son of Webb |William O. Stoddard
In the heat of midday Hare yielded to its influence and reined in his horse under a slate-bank where there was shade.

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British Dictionary definitions for midday

midday

/ (ˈmɪdˈdeɪ) /

noun

the middle of the day; noon
(as modifier)a midday meal