Noon
name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon. countable, uncountable
"On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon."
- 2 The letter ن in the Arabic script.
- 3 An ethnic people who occupy western Senegal. countable
- 4 the middle of the day wordnet
- 5 The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.; The mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks. countable, uncountable
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- 6 The language of these people. uncountable
- 7 The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight. archaic, countable, uncountable
"So the sad mother at the noon of night / From bloody Memphis stole her silent flight […]."
- 8 The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon. countable, obsolete, uncountable
- 9 The highest point; culmination. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed."
- 1 To relax or sleep around midday. intransitive
"We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning, the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake."
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"You have to get this work finished by noon."
Etymology
From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English nōn (“the ninth hour”), from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin nōna (“ninth hour”) (short for nōna hōra), feminine of nōnus (“ninth”). Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.