English Dictionary

meridian

IPA（発音記号）

/məˈɹɪ.dɪ.ən/

形容詞

比較不可 廃用

Relating to a meridian (in various senses); meridional. / (archaic except literary) Relating to midday or noon. / Relating to the culmination or highest point.

日本語の意味

子午線に関連する（地理的な意味や、南北方向の性質を持つ場合） / （古語・文学的表現として）正午、昼正中に関する / 頂点、最高潮、または絶頂に関連する

The meridian marker carved into the plaza stones aligned perfectly with the summer solstice sunrise.

広場の石に刻まれた子午線を示す標識は夏至の朝日と完全に一致した。

意味（1）

Relating to a meridian (in various senses); meridional.

[T]he Tuſcanes have devided the Heaven into 16 parts. The firſt, is from the North to the Sunnes riſing in the Equinoctiall line: the ſecond, to the Meridian line, or the South: the third, to the Sunne ſetting in the Equinoctiall: and the fourth, taketh up all the reſt from the ſaid VVest to the North ſtarre.

意味（2）

(archaic except literary) Relating to midday or noon.

At the meridian hour he [Philippikos Bardanes] withdrew to his chamber, intoxicated with flattery and wine, and forgetful that his example had made every ſubject ambitious, and that every ambitious ſubject was his ſecret enemy.

意味（3）

Relating to the culmination or highest point.

This obvious difference marked the two portions of the empire with a diſtinction of colours, which, though it was in ſome degree concealed during the meridian ſplendor of proſperity, became gradually more viſible, as the ſhades of night deſcended upon the Roman world.

意味（4）

Relating to the south; meridional, southern.

A stranger loves the lady of the land, / Born far beyond the mountains, but his blood / Is all meridian, as if never fann'd / By the black wind that chills the polar flood.