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midday

noun
/mɪdˈdeɪ/

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”).

  1. inherited from middæġ
  2. inherited from midday

Definitions

  1. Noon

    Noon; twelve o'clock during the day.

    • One indicates the time as one hour after twelve midday or midnight.
    • The list of potential victories you could achieve with your reset is long, and it includes a fafillion wins that have nothing to do with the scale: Fewer blemishes. Thicker hair. Less join pain. Reduced cravings. No midday energy slump.
    • But on Friday, a U.S. Air Force plane carrying more than 70 deportees arrived around midday in the city of San Pedro Sula, about 100 miles northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at midday. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01midday02noon03afternoon04lunchtime05lunch

A definitional loop anchored at midday. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at midday

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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