Definitions for Meridian

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Meridian me·rid·i·an

Spelling: [muh-rid-ee-uh n]

IPA: /məˈrɪd i ən/

Meridian is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 338 anagrams from letters in Meridian (adeiimnr).

Definitions for Meridian

noun

1. Geography. a great circle of the earth passing through the poles and any given point on the earth's surface. the half of such a circle included between the poles.
2. Astronomy. the great circle of the celestial sphere that passes through its poles and the observer's zenith.
3. a point or period of highest development, greatest prosperity, or the like.
4. (in acupuncture) any of the pathways in the body along which vital energy flows.
5. a city in E Mississippi.

adjective

1. of or relating to a meridian.
2. of or relating to midday or noon:
3. of or indicating a period of greatest prosperity, splendor, success, etc.

Origin of Meridian

1350-1400; Middle English Latin merīdiānus of noon, equivalent to merīdi(ēs) midday (formed from the locative merīdiē at midday, by dissimilation *medī diē; medius mid

Examples for Meridian

The profuseness of the illuminations outdid the brightness of the meridian sun.

By meridian altitudes of sun, Lyrae (Vega), 32 degrees 15 minutes.

meridian police were not amused and vowed to collect affidavits with an eye toward arresting the perpetrators.

Before he reached it the golden sun had begun to decline from his meridian height.

Following is the revised edition of the Decalogue, calculated for this meridian.

By meridian altitude of sun, camp is in latitude 31 degrees 53 minutes South.

To its proponents Andhra was the meridian, after 600 years of division and dispersal, of Telugu civilization.

Wonderful houses like meridian House but 
still thriving with boiseries, Louis XV and paté en croute.

In the French version, it is the 170th meridian, which is clearly wrong.

Sure enough, it was founded at a meeting in meridian, Mississippi in 1888.