Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The middle of the day; noon.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The middle of the day; noon.
- Of or pertaining to noon; meridional.
Wiktionary
- n. noon; twelve o'clock during the day
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The middle part of the day; noon.
- adj. Of or pertaining to noon; meridional.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the middle of the day
Etymologies
- From Middle English midday, from Old English middæġ ("mid-day, 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"), Danish middag ("midday, noon, afternoon"), Swedish middag ("midday, noon, afternoon"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Dow Jones industrial average fell about 20 points in midday trading.”
The Huffington Post: GDP Grows 2 Percent In 3Q, Stocks Waver
“The Dow rose fell 19.19, or 0.2 percent, to 11,094.61 in midday trading.”
The Huffington Post: GDP Grows 2 Percent In 3Q, Stocks Waver
“The stock, down 12% Friday to $11.07 in midday trading after third-quarter results missed analyst expectations, trades at less than half its book value.”
The Wall Street Journal: Hedge-Fund Manager Eisman Challenges Genworth
“The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 25 points, or 0.3%, to 10972 in midday trading, while the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index advanced less than one point to 1162 and the Nasdaq Composite lost 9 points to 2391.”
“Ambac shares were up 30% at 76 cents in midday trade on the New York Stock Exchange.”
“Robbins & Myers 'shares dropped 3.86% in midday trading to $25.65 as the company's results topped expectations.”
“Sally shares recently were down 2% at $11.12 in midday New York Stock Exchange composite trading.”
The Wall Street Journal: Sally Beauty Expands in Midwest With Aerial Buyout
“GE shares fell 16 cents to $16.14 in midday trading Monday.”
“The Australian dollar, seen as the closest proxy for China's economy, fell 1.8% against the greenback in midday trading.”
“The euro was at 7.4582 kroner in midday trading Wednesday.”
The Wall Street Journal: Denmark Shifts Policy to Keep Euro Peg in Check
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Times of Day
A cycle we should know by name
dawn, sunrise, daw, sparrow-fart, moonrise, daybreak, crepuscular, false dawn, greking, night, dusk, evenfall and 17 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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