单词 | midday |
释义 | midday (once / 1132 pages) n As a noun, the word midday refers to the middle of the day. You should avoid the sun at midday, especially if you have very fair skin. The noun midday can particularly mean noon. You may prefer to have your heaviest meal midday. The opposite of midday in this case is, of course, midnight. Midday is a compound word combining mid and day. In Old English the term was middæg and German still has a similar word with Mittag. The word midday can also be used as an adjective for midday meal, midday sun. WORD FAMILYmidday: middays+/daily: dailies/day: daily, days, midday/days: dayses USAGE EXAMPLESThere are no immediate details on the midday blasts. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Obama returns to Washington at midday Monday from Hawaii with less than three weeks remaining in his presidency. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Live music will also be a part of the events leading up to the big midday plunge into the surf. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) n the middle of the day Syn|Hyper high noon, noon, noonday, noontide, twelve noon hour, time of day clock time |
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