MIDDAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does midday mean? 

• MIDDAY (noun)
  The noun MIDDAY has 1 sense:

1. the middle of the day

  Familiarity information: MIDDAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDDAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The middle of the day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

high noon; midday; noon; noonday; noontide; twelve noon

Hypernyms ("midday" is a kind of...):

hour; time of day (clock time)

Holonyms ("midday" is a part of...):

24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)

 Context examples 

“Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday to-morrow,” it said.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I went out about midday to transact some business in Oxford Street.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Professor Coram was still in bed, for when the weather is bad he seldom rises before midday.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As she was very tired, she sat herself down in the hollow of a tree and soon fell asleep: and there she slept on till it was midday.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

To begin with, at the midday dinner, Wolf Larsen informed the hunters that they were to eat thenceforth in the steerage.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was midday before we had made ourselves secure, but the heat was not oppressive, and the general character of the plateau, both in its temperature and in its vegetation, was almost temperate.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“From Portsmouth at midday,” said the secretary, examining the superscription.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A midday meal sometimes also called dinner.

(Lunch, NCI Thesaurus)

A study revealed a connection between midday napping and greater happiness, fewer behavioral problems; and higher IQ in children.

(Children Who Nap Are Happier, Have Higher IQ, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“He doesn’t show before midday. Ah, Jack, good morning! Your servant, madam! It’s a fine day for a little bit of waggoning.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)