midday

• mid-day

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”).

• IPA^(key): /mɪdˈdeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

midday (countable and uncountable, plural middays)

1. Noon; twelve o'clock during the day.

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

   • 2016, Melissa Hartwig, Food Freedom Forever:

     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.

   • 2025 February 1, Annie Correal, “U.S. Military Planes Deliver Deportees to Honduras”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 2 February 2025:

     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.

• nones, noontide; see also Thesaurus:midday

• midnight; see also Thesaurus:midnight

• mydaid