Thesaurus:midday

Thesaurus

midday

English

Noun

Sense: the time of day when the sun is in its zenith

Synonyms

• 12 o'clock
• 12 noon
• 12 p.m. (sometimes proscribed)
• high noon (idiomatic)
• meridian
• meridiem (rare)
• midday
• nones (obsolete)
• noon
• noonday
• noontime, noon-time
• noontide
• sext (historical)
• twelve
• undern (dialectal)
• undermeal (obsolete)
• undertide (obsolete)

Antonyms

• midnight    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• daytime    [⇒ thesaurus]

Meronyms

• lunch
• nooning (archaic, dialectal)

Holonyms

• day    [⇒ thesaurus]

Comeronyms

• early morning    [⇒ thesaurus]
• dawn    [⇒ thesaurus]
• first light
• postdawn
• morning    [⇒ thesaurus]
• afternoon    [⇒ thesaurus]
• evening    [⇒ thesaurus]
• dusk    [⇒ thesaurus]
• night
• midnight    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “125. morning” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “midday” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.