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Noontide

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Midday, noon. literary

    "[…] I haue bedymn'd / The Noone tide Sun, call'd forth the mutenous windes, / And twixt the greene Sea, and the azur'd vault / Set roaring warre: […]"

  2. 2
    the middle of the day wordnet
  3. 3
    Climax; high point. figuratively

    "Yet there are noble passages in his later poems: and even the latest have their own peculiar charm of serenity and kindliness,—a tranquil sunset, as it were, succeeding not unmeetly to the fiery splendours of his noontide course."

Etymology

From Middle English non-tyde, from Old English nōntīd (“noontide”), equivalent to noon + tide.

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