midday

CEFRA2

/mɪdˈdeɪ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The middle of the day, around twelve o'clock.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Noon; twelve o'clock during the day.

Examples

  • I give the cows hay, and midday's work is over.

  • It is midday. The men are eating lunch.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
2
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
5

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In context

  • I'll ring back at midday.

  • One indicates the time as one hour after twelve midday or midnight.

  • 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.

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Origin

noun

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”).