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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
midday
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an evening/midday meal
▪ The evening meal is served at 7.30.
it’s turned 2 o'clock/5/midday etc
▪ It’s just turned three.
the midday heat
▪ The air shimmered in the midday heat.
the midday/noonday sun
▪ They all sought shade from the blazing midday sun.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
meal
▪ Le Déjeuner - a simple midday meal after a morning in the fields. 3.
▪ I said to him once, sitting in a chair as he fed me my midday meal of baked beans and crackers.
▪ They had their midday meal fairly early, soas to have it out of the way before their peculiar visitor arrived.
▪ The family is eating the midday meal.
▪ During the midday meal the older children read edifying passages chosen by Nicholas from religious or secular history.
▪ His wife came in to tell him that the midday meal was ready, that the soup was getting cold.
▪ They would stop at an inn for a midday meal, discuss their finds and be instructed particularly on their medical properties.
▪ Sunday was the one day on which most of the mountain shepherds ate their midday meal indoors.
sun
▪ The burning midday sun roused him from a feverish sleep.
▪ He tied me to a post in the midday sun and ordered me to repeat his name ten thousand times.
▪ The inside of the car was hot from the midday sun.
▪ In the midday sun the flooded paddies formed a mirrored mosaic across which tropical clouds scudded in fragmented disarray.
▪ He walked by night and slept by day, the midday sun being too hot for him.
▪ The patio gets a southern exposure, and a pergola shades about 75 percent of the midday sun.
▪ This involves avoiding the midday sun.
▪ Most remarkably it continued to function under California's midday sun, when it's slate grey shell was too hot hold!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Details were to be given at a midday news conference.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After the necessary shunting the train returned eastwards around midday.
▪ At midday Damian arrived for lunch.
▪ By midday Monday, Mr Hickey had worked 28 straight hours, and there was no end in sight.
▪ By midday the crops would disappear, only to be replaced next morning by another mountain of crops.
▪ It was midday Thursday by the time she returned to the van.
▪ Le Déjeuner - a simple midday meal after a morning in the fields. 3.
▪ The market is closed for its midday break until 2 p. m. Zurich time.
▪ The press were barely satisfied with Talbot's midday statement.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Midday

Midday \Mid"day`\, n. [AS. midd[ae]g. See Mid, a., and Day.] The middle part of the day; noon.

Midday

Midday \Mid"day`\, a. Of or pertaining to noon; meridional; as, the midday sun.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
midday

Old English middæg "midday, noon," contracted from midne dæg; see mid + day. Similar formation in Old High German mittitag, German mittag, Old Norse miðdagr.

Wiktionary
midday

n. noon; twelve o'clock during the day

WordNet
midday

n. the middle of the day [syn: noon, twelve noon, high noon, noonday, noontide]

Wikipedia
Midday (Australian TV program)

Midday (commonly referred to as The Midday Show) is an Australian award winning television show, that aired on the Nine Network on 11 February 1985 until 27 November 1998. The show aired, like its title suggests, at noon, on a weekday schedule, and was a 90-minute variety programme with international and local guests. It featured interviews, musical performances and comedy spots. The format of the show was similar to that of its predecessor, The Mike Walsh Show, of which it replaced in the lunch time slot.

Midday (disambiguation)

Midday refers to the hour of 12:00 at the middle of the day, also known as noon, or to the time around noon usually referring to between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.

Midday may also refer to:

Midday (horse)

Midday is a daughter of the top-class 2-year-old and sprinter Oasis Dream and is out of the Kingmambo mare Midsummer. She has won 9 out of 23 starts, including the Group 1 Nassau Stakes three times (unequalled), the Yorkshire Oaks, Prix Vermeille and the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf. She ran second to Sariska in the 2009 Epsom Oaks and was trained by Henry Cecil.

Midday (Irish TV series)

Midday is an Irish television talk show programme skewed towards female viewers.

Midday (painting)

A Midday is a painting by Evgenia Antipova (1917-2009), well-known Russian painter and graphic artist, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad), regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting most famous for her landscape and still life painting.

Midday (CBC)

Midday was a television newsmagazine series on CBC Television, which ran from January 7, 1985 to June 30, 2000, replacing local noon-hour newscasts on CBC stations. The show, which aired from noon to 1 p.m. on weekday afternoons, presented a mix of news, lifestyle and entertainment features.

Its original hosts were Bill Cameron, Keith Morrison and Valerie Pringle; Pringle hosted consistently while Cameron and Morrison alternated as her co-anchor, as both were also contributors to the CBC's nightly news program The Journal. Dave Hodge was also auditioned as a potential host of the program.

The show would open with a 10-minute CBC News summary, usually read by Sheldon Turcott in the news studio, and then move to another studio — the same studio, in fact, that was used for The Journal — for the main segment of the program. Following the launch of CBC Newsworld in 1989, the news summary became a simulcast of that network's hourly news update that was live for each time zone.

The original producer was Michael Harris and the series was directed for its first four seasons by Sidney M. Cohen, who later became executive producer of Canada AM for CTV. Initial ratings were not strong, with the program attracting only slightly more viewers across all of Canada than CIII-TV's local noon-hour newscast was attracting in the Toronto market alone, although the program was a strong performer in the ratings by 1986.

After several months with the program, Morrison transferred to the CBC's bureau in Ottawa, while Cameron was not interested in taking over as a permanent host of the program due to his duties with The Journal, and Peter Downie was hired as Pringle's new cohost; Pringle took a maternity leave in 1986, with Sue Prestedge filling in as substitute anchor for several weeks.

Downie left in June 1989 to become host of Man Alive, and was replaced by Ralph Benmergui, who was selected over Whit Fraser and Stuart McLean.

Benmergui left the show in May 1992 to become host of Friday Night! with Ralph Benmergui, and was succeeded by Kevin Newman in the fall. Newman cohosted with Pringle for only a few weeks before she left the show in December of the same year to succeed Pamela Wallin as cohost of CTV's Canada AM, just a few weeks after Wallin was hired by the CBC to become coanchor of Prime Time News, and was replaced by Tina Srebotnjak, previously the show's entertainment reporter and a sometime substitute anchor.

Newman left in November 1994 to join ABC News in the United States, and was replaced by Brent Bambury, formerly the host of CBC Stereo's Brave New Waves, in March 1995. Bambury and Srebotnjak remained the hosts of the show until its cancellation in 2000.

Other notable personalities associated with the show included Pete Luckett, a grocer from Nova Scotia who presented food segments, and Antonia Zerbisias, who appeared as an entertainment commentator and reviewer.

The final program, which aired on June 30, 2000, featured a live studio audience and appearances by all of the program's former hosts. Comedy musical group The Arrogant Worms performed a tribute song written especially for the program, based around the theme that "without Midday telling them it was time for lunch, they'd starve".

Usage examples of "midday".

When they stopped to rest the horses at midday, however, Alec sensed something was up.

Just after midday he started so violently that Alec laid a hand on his arm.

We ate our midday meal on the move, with Bor taking his oats from a nosebag, stopping only to drink when we found a little stream that ran too fast to freeze.

In the vast flood of midday sunshine, to the quivering noise of the cicalas, I mount to Dioudjen-dji.

Even though it was midday and the sun was shining, the four passed into the stillness of trees, into the sharply fragrant twilight trapped beneath the dense canopy of cryptomeria and pine.

Nearby, Krai built a fire of deadfall wood to prepare their midday meal.

Brilliant, dewless mornings, blinding middays, afternoons held breathless in the remorseless torrent of light.

CELEBRATED CRIMES VOLUME 7, Part 2 By Alexander Dumas, Pere THE COUNTESS DE SAINT-GERAN About the end of the year 1639, a troop of horsemen arrived, towards midday, in a little village at the northern extremity of the province of Auvergne, from the direction of Paris.

Mad dogs and Englishmen may go out in the midday sun, but an ectothermic animal has trouble coping with its rise in body temperature.

At midday on the Tridi after they had met with the Eleventh Company captain, Longyl and Egyl interrupted his mounted sabre training efforts with the first two squads, riding up.

Almost ten thousand regular army troops and federalized National Guardsmen were in Oxford or the immediate vicinity by midday.

Their descent was visibly accelerated, and soon after midday the car hung within 600 feet of the ocean.

He stopped this quiet man, going quietly home to his midday meal, attacked him, beat down his feeble defences, broke his arm, felled him, and smashed his head to a jelly.

Now, under the midday sun, the Major wandered among the sappers filling the gab ions He tested each one, making certain that the sepoys i, were ramming the earth hard into the wicker baskets, for a loosely filled gabion was no use.

Kota and going towards Naya Gaon, and at midday I heard him calling at the lower end of the Dhunigad cane-brake.