Word.ws English Dictionary

middle day

middle day noun: midday; noon.

Noun

middle day (uncountable)

  1. Midday; noon.
    • Till each like a golden image was pollen'd from head to feet,
      And each was as dry as a cricket, with thirst in the middleday heat.1895, Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson, William James Rolfe, Select Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, page 168
    • [...] a law, in short, is all the hundred and one things, the hundred and one tasks you have to fulfil at all hours, the grey and gentle hours of the morning, the white hours of middle day, the purple hours of evening, the silent, meditative hours of night; tasks which leave you no soul to call...1921, Anatole France, translated by J. Lewis May, Marguerite
    Synonyms:
    12 o'clock, 12 noon, 12 p.m., high noon, meridian, meridiem, midday, nones, noon, noonday

Synonyms of middle day

8 more synonymsFewer synonyms

Forms of middle day

alternative formmiddle-day
alternative formmiddleday

Origin of middle day

From middle + day. Cognate with Old High German mittiltag (“noon, midday”). Compare also similarly formed Middle English middelniȝt, middel-niht (“midnight”, literally “middle-night”).

Questions about middle day

What does middle day mean?
Middle day means midday; noon.
What part of speech is middle day?
Middle day is a noun.

Words near middle day in the dictionary

  1. Middle Cove
  2. Middle Creek
  3. middle Cs
  4. Middle Czech
  5. Middle Danish
  6. middle day
  7. middle distance
  8. middle distances
  9. middle dot
  10. middle dots
  11. Middle Dural

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: middle day (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “middle day.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/middle_day. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.