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midday

/mɪdˈdeɪ/

midday noun: noon; twelve o'clock during the day.

Noun

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.
    • 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.2016, Melissa Hartwig, Food Freedom Forever
    Synonyms:
    nones, noontide, 12 o'clock, 12 noon, 12 p.m., high noon, meridian, meridiem, noon, noonday

midday meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

midday in Tamil

நண்பகல்

midday in Urdu

midday
نصف النہار nisfun nahār

midday in Bengali

midday, noon
মাদান madan, মধ্যাহ্ন moddhahno

midday in Telugu

midday, noon
మధ్యాహ్నము madhyāhnamu
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midday in Malayalam
നട്ടുച്ച, ഉച്ച, ഉച്ചി, മദ്ധ്യാഹ്നം
midday in Kannada
ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ madhyāhna
midday in Punjabi
ਦੁਪਹਿਰ dupahir
midday in Sanskrit
मध्याह्न madhyāhna

Examples of midday in a sentence

  • Around midday the storm broke, and the afternoon was calm and sunny.
  • Had I not known you were coming this evening, I'd have left at midday.
  • I have to vacate my house by midday, as the new owner is moving in.

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Synonyms of midday

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Antonyms

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Forms of midday

pluralmiddays
alternative formmid-day

Plural of midday: middays

Origin of midday

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”).

Words that rhyme with midday

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Questions about midday

What does midday mean?
Midday means noon; twelve o'clock during the day.
What is midday in Tamil?
Midday in Tamil is நண்பகல். See Midday meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is midday?
Midday is a noun.
How do you pronounce midday?
Midday is pronounced /mɪdˈdeɪ/.
What is the plural of midday?
The plural of midday is middays.

Words near midday in the dictionary

  1. midcut
  2. midcycle
  3. middah
  4. Middaugh
  5. Middaughs
  6. midday
  7. middays
  8. middeck
  9. Middelburg
  10. Middelfart
  11. Middelfarter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: midday (page history and authors); midday (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); نصف النہار (Urdu) (page history and authors); মধ্যাহ্ন (Bengali) (page history and authors); మధ్యాహ్నము (Telugu) (page history and authors); midday (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਦੁਪਹਿਰ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); मध्याह्न (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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