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Noon

//nuːn// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    The letter ن in the Arabic script.
  3. 3
    An ethnic people who occupy western Senegal. countable
  4. 4
    the middle of the day wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    The language of these people. uncountable
  2. 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 […]."

  3. 8
    The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  4. 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."

Verb
  1. 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

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