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midday Definition

mid·day (mid′dā′)

noun

the middle of the day; noon

Etymology: ME middai < OE middæg

adjective

of or at midday
midday Usage Examples

Preposition: on

  • Saturday: Post offices are open from 8 am to 7 pm and from 8 am to midday on Saturdays.
  • day: The best time to visit is about midday on a clear day.
  • date: Jobcentre Plus must receive all questionnaires by 12 midday on this date.

Converse of subject

  • receive: Applications must be received by midday Thursday 13th July on WDM's application form in hard copy.

Adjective modifier

  • past: Both days I slept past midday, despite going to bed at reasonable times the previous night.
  • near: As far as I know the flight lasts four hours so I should turn up at Heathrow near midday.

Converse of object

  • approach: A very entertaining talk, done at some speed as it was now approaching midday - time for 3rd contact!
  • come: Take a piece of cake, then come home midday.
  • start: The Convention will be held this Sunday at Vanbrugh starting midday.
  • arrive: We arrived midday at the end of May in basking heat and were warmly welcomed and shown to our beautiful and vast suite.
  • serve: When staying Saturday night, enjoy a lie in with cooked breakfast served til midday on Sundays and late checkout.
  • sleep: Both days I slept past midday, despite going to bed at reasonable times the previous night.

Modifies a noun

  • sun: LEADER: Jonah lay down in the midday sun, hoping to die.
  • kick-off: Cardiff's 1,500 traveling fans made huge sacrifices to support the Bluebirds at Luton for a midday kick-off and we deserved better.
  • meal: High School children receive tokens to purchase their midday meals at school on a weekly basis.
  • supervisor: At lunch time, midday supervisors are employed to care for pupils.
  • heat: The midday heat burns with the furiously battling storm.
  • sunshine: The midday sunshine can be a mixed blessing look for dappled shade for best results.

Preposition: in

  • bar: Soon after midday in many bars the cake trays on the counter are replaced by trays of hot and cold tapas.

Noun used with modifier

  • til: Around 60 people visit Storehouse every Friday in the hall from 10 am ` til midday.
midday Quotes

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i'the centre, and enjoy bright day, But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun; Himself is his own dungeon.

—Milton,John