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# midday

«midday» in Mova's school dictionary: **twelve o'clock in the middle of the day; noon** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (midday — uncountable); adjective (midday)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Midday is twelve o'clock in the middle of the day; noon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midday/#m1)

2) Midday can also mean around the middle of the day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midday/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and time, midday is 12:00, or 12 pm, or 12 noon; times before it are am, times after it are pm; midnight is 12 hours later. In science and safety, the Sun is highest in the sky around midday (about 1 pm in summer time), so the sun's rays are strongest: stay in the shade, wear a hat and sunscreen, and shadows are shortest then. In everyday life, «a midday meal» is lunch.

### examples

- We eat lunch at midday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midday/#x1)
- The Sun is highest in the sky around midday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midday/#x2)
- Stay out of the strong sun at midday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midday/#x3)
- Midday is 12 o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midday/#x4)
- The shop closes at midday on Saturdays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midday/#x5)
- Shadows are shortest at midday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midday/#x6)
- From 9 am to midday is three hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midday/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: «at midday», not «at a midday». Midday = noon = 12:00 = 12 pm. Midnight = 12:00 at night = 12 am. In maths, counting time across midday: from 11 am to 2 pm is 3 hours. Opposite: «midnight».

### In the corpora

- [At midday the Sun is in the southern part of the sky in the USA, Canada, the UK and Ireland.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/15/)
- [At midday the Sun is in the northern part of the sky in Australia and New Zealand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/16/)
- ["Good morning" is said before midday, "good afternoon" until about six, and "good evening" after that.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/121-greeting-adults-and-teachers/7/)
- [In the UK and Ireland, tradition says April Fool tricks are done before midday; whoever pranks after noon is the fool.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/13/)
- [When it is midday in one country, it is midnight on the opposite side of the Earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/1-day-and-night/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «midday» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midday/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.