different between midday vs noonstead

English

Alternative forms

• mid-day

Etymology

From Middle English midday, from Old English middæ? (“midday, noon”), equivalent to mid- +? day. Cognate with Scots midday (“midday”), West Frisian middei (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Dutch middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), German Mittag (“noon, midday, late morning, early afternoon”), Danish middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Norwegian Bokmål middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Swedish middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?d?de?/

Noun

midday (countable and uncountable, plural middays)

1. noon; twelve o'clock during the day

Synonyms

• nones, noontide; see also Thesaurus:midday

Antonyms

• midnight; see also Thesaurus:midnight

Translations

See also

• (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight ^{(Category: en:Times of day)}

Anagrams

• mydaid

English

Etymology

noon +? stead

Noun

noonstead (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The position of the sun at midday.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 1 p. 5[1]:

     With all our sister Nymphes, that to the noone-sted looke,