midday

noun

mid·​day ˈmid-ˌdā How to pronounce midday (audio)
-ˈdā
often attributive
: the middle of the day
They arrived around midday.

Examples of midday in a Sentence

by midday the sun and heat were unbearable
Recent Examples on the Web Navalny before his death in prison last month urged people to gather at the same time outside polling stations at midday on Sunday. Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2024 By midday, about 15 Israeli tanks and several bulldozers were on the hospital’s grounds, said Alaa Abu al-Kaas, who was staying at the hospital with her father, who was being treated. Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024 Russians crowded outside polling stations at midday Sunday on the last day of a three-day presidential election, apparently heeding an opposition call to protest against President Vladimir Putin. Emma Burrows and Dasha Litvinova, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2024 Another isolated thunderstorm that developed east of Apache Junction midday was also moving south and was expected to bring small hail, locally heavy rainfall and gusty winds to the lower east Valley. Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2024 And while crime has dipped since the beginning of the year, a couple of recent incidents — a late-afternoon homicide during a downtown carjacking and a brazen midday robbery at a jewelry store — feed worries that the area is dangerous. Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024 There was also a midday drawing that day with a top prize of $1,350,000 that no one won. Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024 Shohei Ohtani, down to his last pitch in what had been a failure of a first game in a Dodgers uniform, clubbed that pitch high into the blue midday sky, the ball soaring over an Air National Guard advertisement before dropping into the grassy area beyond the left-field wall. Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024 Make no mistake, pursuing wildly imaginative spaces during a midday social media scroll is incredibly fun. Kelsey Mulvey, Sunset Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of midday was before the 12th century

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“Midday.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/midday. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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midday

noun
mid·​day ˈmid-ˌdā How to pronounce midday (audio)
-ˈdā
: the middle of the day
midday adjective

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