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Dictionary: mid·day   (mĭd'') pronunciation
n.
The middle of the day; noon.


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Definition: noon
Antonyms: midnight


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Theoretically, midday should be as important as midnight in the daily cycle of time, but this is not so in English lore—probably because the noonday sun is very rarely uncomfortable, let alone dangerous, in the English climate. Interestingly, one of the few magical rituals prescribed for noon was done on Midsummer Day; this coinciding of the midpoint of the summer and the daylight hours presumably redoubled its efficacity. It is only in childlore that midday is regularly significant: for schoolchildren, customary periods of permitted tricking or tormenting generally stop at noon, for example April Fool jokes.

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IN BRIEF: Another word for noon.

pronunciation We ate our midday meal hungrily.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - middag, midt på dagen

Nederlands (Dutch)
middag, het midden van de dag

Français (French)
n. - midi

Deutsch (German)
n. - Mittag

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μεσημέρι

Italiano (Italian)
mezzogiorno

Português (Portuguese)
n. - meio dia (m)

Русский (Russian)
полдень

Español (Spanish)
n. - mediodía

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - middagstid, mitt på dagen

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
正午, 中午

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 正午, 中午

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 정오

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 正午, 真昼, 六時課
adj. - 真昼の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الظهر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮צהריים, חצות היום‬


 
 
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