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mediodía

Spanish, noun/medjoˈdia/

mediodía is spelled M-E-D-I-O-D-Í-A (8 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written Spanish, the 5,594th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mediodía is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “noon, midday” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Intervalo del día posterior a la mañana y que abarca aproximadamente desde las doce hasta la una”.

What does mediodía mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinenoon, midday

    pleno mediodía

  2. 2

    Spainmasculinelunchtime

    hacer mediodía

  3. 3

    masculinemeridian

  4. 4

    masculinesouth

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Intervalo del día posterior a la mañana y que abarca aproximadamente desde las doce hasta la una. 2. Período del día en el que el Sol se encuentra en el cénit. 3. Punto cardinal situado enfrente del norte. 4. Zona situada al sur de otra.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of mediodía

  • mediodías plural
  • mediodia alternative obsolete

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce mediodía?

  • /medjoˈdia/
  • [me.ð̞joˈð̞i.a]
  • [með̞joˈð̞ia]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to mediodía

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is mediodía in Spanish?

mediodía appears 13 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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