meridian

meridian meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Examples of meridian in a sentence

• This was the moment at which the fortunes of Montague reached the meridian.1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XXIII, in Lady Trevelyan (Hannah More Macaulay), editor, The History of England from the Accession...
• All other knowledge meerly or principally ſerves the concerns of this Life, and is fitted to the meridian thereof: […]a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, “The Introduction, Declaring the Reason of the Choice of This Subject, and the Method of the Intended...
• This ſuggeſtion, improbable as it vvas, had the deſired effect upon the captain, being exactly calculated for the meridian of his intellects; […]1748, [Tobias Smollett], chapter XXVIII, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volume I, London: […] [William Strahan] for J[ohn]...
• She loves to gossip about the Abbey and Lord Byron, and was soon drawn into a course of anecdotes, though mostly of a humble kind, suited to the meridian of the housekeeper's room and servants' hall.1835, [Washington Irving], “[Newstead Abbey.] Superstitions of the Abbey.”, in Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey (The Crayon Miscellany; no....

All 19 example sentences with meridian

Synonyms of meridian

• noontide
• 12 o'clock
• 12 noon
• 12 p.m.
• high noon
• midday
• noon
• noonday
• noontime
• noon-time

All synonyms of meridian

Forms of meridian

Plural of meridian: meridians

Origin of meridian

The noun is derived from Late Middle English meridian, meridien (“midday, noon; position of the sun at noon; the south; longitude of a place; (astronomy) celestial meridian”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman meridien (“midday”), Middle French meridien (“midday; the south; terrestrial meridian; (astronomy) celestial meridian”) (modern French méridien), and Old French meridiane, meridiiene, and from their etymon Latin merīdiānum (“midday; position of the sun at noon; the south”), a noun use of the neuter form of merīdiānus (“relating to midday; southern”); see further at etymology 1. Sense 1.1 (“celestial meridian”) is ultimately modelled after Latin merīdiāna līnea (“meridian line”). Sense 5.2 (“midday rest; siesta”) is modelled after Late Latin meridiana (“midday; midday rest”), probably short for Latin merīdiāna hōra (“midday time”). The verb is derived from the noun.

PIE word *médʰyos From Late Middle English meridian, meridien (“relating to midday or noon; southern; (astronomy) relating to the celestial meridian”) [and other forms], from Middle French meridien, Old French meridiane (“relating to midday; southern”) (whence Anglo-Norman meridien; modern French méridien), and from their etymon Latin merīdiānus (“relating to midday; southern”), from merīdiēs (“midday, noon; the south (due to the southward orientation of the sun at noon in the Northern Hemisphere)”) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). Merīdiēs is a dissimilated form of Old Latin medīdiēs (with the -d- sound shifted to -r-), from medius (“middle”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”)) + diēs (“day”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“heaven, sky; to be bright”)).

Borrowed from French méridien or German Meridian (“pathway on the body along which life force is thought to flow”), from Latin merīdiānum (“midday; position of the sun at noon; the south”) (see further at etymology 2); the French and German words are calques of Mandarin 經 /经, 经 (jīng, “pathway on the body along which life force is thought to flow; longitude; warp of woven fabric; to go or pass through”).

Words formed from meridian

• antimeridian
• autonomous sensory meridian response
• circummeridian
• extrameridian
• Ferro meridian
• Greenwich meridian
• hemimeridian
• meridianal
• meridianally
• meridian fennel
• meridian termite
• prime meridian
• semimeridian
• standard meridian
• transmeridian
• Washington Meridian Time
• zero meridian
• meridianed
• postmeridian

Related words

• méridienne
• meridienne
• meridional
• meridionally

Phrases with meridian

• meridian termites
• autonomous sensory meridian responses

Words that rhyme with meridian

• Gideon
• quotidian
• Eridian
• euclidean
• Lydian
• nullifidian
• obsidian
• viridian
• aphidian
• ascidian
• enchiridion
• ophidian

Questions about meridian

What does meridian mean?

Meridian means in full celestial meridian: a great circle passing through the poles of the celestial sphere and the zenith for a particular point on the Earth's surface.

What is meridian in Hindi?

Meridian in Hindi is यामोत्तर (yāmottar). See Meridian meaning in Hindi.

How do you use meridian in a sentence?

This was the moment at which the fortunes of Montague reached the meridian.

What part of speech is meridian?

Meridian can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.

How do you pronounce meridian?

Meridian is pronounced /məˈɹɪ.dɪ.ən/ (UK).

What is the plural of meridian?

The plural of meridian is meridians.