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MIDDAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The middle of the day
Synonyms:
high noon; midday; noon; noonday; noontide; twelve noon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("midday" is a kind of...):
hour; time of day (clock time)
Holonyms ("midday" is a part of...):
24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)
Context examples:
By midday the irk of his pack became too oppressive.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
At midday, not only did the sun warm the southern horizon, but it even thrust its upper rim, pale and golden, above the sky-line.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Penitentes are tall sharp-edged blades and spikes made of snow and ice that point towards the midday sun.
(Icy Warning for Space Missions to Jupiter's Moon, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The other men were variously burthened, some carrying picks and shovels—for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the HISPANIOLA—others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It is customary at Mawson’s for the clerks to leave at midday on Saturday.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By midday, though we were well up in the northerly latitudes, the heat was sickening.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
This we reached about midday, only to find a shallow valley beyond, rising once again into a gentle incline which led to a low, rounded sky-line.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The midday nap is easily implemented, and it costs nothing, particularly if accompanied by a slightly later end to the day, to avoid cutting into educational time.
(Children Who Nap Are Happier, Have Higher IQ, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
At midday the sky to the south warmed to rose-colour, and marked where the bulge of the earth intervened between the meridian sun and the northern world.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
By midday my husband and I were on our way to London, but not before he had given our benefactor full warning of this danger, and had also left such information for the police as would safeguard his life for the future.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
