midday

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Noon; twelve o'clock during the day.

   One indicates the time as one hour after twelve midday or midnight.

2. 2
   noun

   the middle of the day

Etymology

From Middle English midday, from Old English middæġ (“midday, noon”), equivalent to mid- + day. Cognate with Scots midday (“midday”), West Frisian middei (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Dutch middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), German Mittag (“noon, midday, late morning, early afternoon”), Danish middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Norwegian Bokmål middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Swedish middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”).