middaymid‧day /ˌmɪdˈdeɪ◂ $ ˈmɪd-deɪ/ ●●○ noun [uncountable] 
I’m meeting him at midday. I got there around midday. By midday it had begun to warm up. We stopped off in Colchester for our midday meal. the full heat of the midday sun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Details were to be given at a midday news conference.
- 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.
Longman Language Activatora meal in the middle of the day
the meal you eat in the middle of the day: · At work we are allowed one hour for lunch.· See you after lunch.eat/have lunch: · Shall we have lunch before we go out?a late/an early lunch: · We had an early lunch and spent the afternoon shopping.Sunday lunch British: · We always have roast beef for Sunday lunch.
especially British the meal eaten in the middle of the day. This word is also used for large meals eaten in the middle of the day on Sundays or holidays.: · He comes home for his dinner, then goes back to the factory.school dinner (=a dinner which is provided for children at school): · She used to hate school dinners.Sunday/Christmas/Thanksgiving dinner: · We had some friends round for Sunday dinner.· In one of my less lucid moments, I had volunteered to host Thanksgiving dinner.
British /noon meal American the meal eaten in the middle of the day - use this especially when describing what happens in other countries: · In Spain, the midday meal almost always starts with tomato salad.· The noon meal was carried out to the fields where the harvesters were working.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY We stopped off in Colchester for our midday meal. the full heat of the midday sunCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES It’s just turned three.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
We stopped off in Colchester for our midday meal. the full heat of the midday sun· The air shimmered in the midday heat.
· The evening meal is served at 7.30.
· They all sought shade from the blazing midday sun.
It’s just turned three.· 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.
· 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!
WORD FAMILYnoundaymiddayadjectivedailyadverbdaily
the middle of the day, at or around 12 o’clockat/around/by etc midday I’m meeting him at midday. I got there around midday. By midday it had begun to warm up. We stopped off in Colchester for our midday meal. the full heat of the midday sun