noon

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Etymology

From Old English nōn, 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nuːn/, X-SAMPA: /nu:n/

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• Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

noon (plural noons)

1. (obsolete) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
2. Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
3. (obsolete) The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
   • 1885: When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 17

Synonyms

• (twelve o'clock in the day): noontide, noon-time, midday, twelve (o'clock)

Antonyms

• (middle of the night): midnight

See also

• (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, evening, dusk, night, midnight

Translations

midday

• Ainu: トノㇱキ (tonoski)
• Albanian: drekë (sq), mesditë (sq), drekëhera (sq)
• Arabic: ظهر (ar) (Zuhr) m

  Egyptian Arabic: ظهر (ḍohr) m

• Armenian: կեսօր (hy) (kesòr) 
• Asturian: meudía (ast) m, mediudía (ast) m
• Azeri: günorta (az)
• Breton: kreisteiz (br) m
• Burmese: မွန်းတည့် (my)
• Catalan: migdia (ca) m
• Chamicuro: yas̈htijka mo'sojko
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 正午 (cmn) (zhèngwǔ)

• Crimean Tatar: üyle
• Czech: poledne (cs) n
• Danish: middag (da) c
• Dutch: middag (nl) m
• Esperanto: tagmezo (eo)
• Ewe: ŋdɔ
• Finnish: keskipäivä (fi), puolipäivä (fi)
• French: midi (fr) m
• Galician: mediodía (gl) m
• Georgian: შუადღე (ka) (šuadḡe) 
• German: Mittag (de) m
• Greek: μεσημέρι (el) (mesiméri) n 
• Guaraní: asaje (gn), asajepyte (gn)
• Guernésiais: méjeu m
• Hindi: दोपहर (hi) (dopahar) m
• Hungarian: dél (hu)
• Indonesian: tengah hari
• Interlingua: mediedie (ia), meridie (ia)
• Irish: nóin (ga) f
• Italian: mezzogiorno (it) m
• Japanese: 正午 (ja) (しょうご, shōgo), 真昼 (ja) (まひる, mahiru)
• Khmer: ថ្ងៃត្រង់ (km) (tŋay trɑŋ)
• Korean: 정오 (ko) (jeong-o) (正午 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: نیوه‌ڕۆ (ku)

• Lao: ເວລາທ່ຽງມື້ (lo)
• Latin: meridies (la) m, meridianum tempus (la) n, medium diei (la) n
• Luxembourgish: Mëtteg (lb) m
• Macedonian: пладне (mk) (pládne) n
• Malay:

  Rumi: tengah hari (ms) / tengari (ms)

  Jawi: تڠه هاري (ms) / تڠاري (ms)

• Maltese: nofsinhar (mt) m
• Mazanderani: چاشت (cašt), چاشت‌سری (caštseri)
• Ngarrindjeri: gauwel
• Norwegian: middag (no) m, non (no) m (archaic)
• Occitan: miègjorn (oc) m
• Polish: południe (pl) n
• Portuguese: meio-dia (pt) m
• Romanian: amiază (ro) f, miezul zilei (ro) n, mijloc de zi (ro) n
• Russian: полдень (ru) (pólden’) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: meadhan-là (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: подне (sh) n

  Roman: podne (sh) n

• Slovene: poldan (sl) m
• Spanish: mediodía (es) m
• Swahili: adhuuri (sw) (nc 9/10), saa sita, mchana (sw), adhuhuri (sw)
• Swedish: middag (sv) c
• Tagalog: tanghali (tl), n.t.
• Telugu: మధ్యాహ్నము (te)
• Thai: เที่ยงวัน (th)
• Tupinambá: asaîé
• Turkish: öğle (tr)
• Ukrainian: полудень (uk) (poluden') m 
• Urdu: دوپہر (ur) (dopahar) m
• Vietnamese: buổi trưa (vi)
• Volapük: zedel (vo)
• Welsh: canol dydd (cy) m, hanner dydd (cy)
• West Frisian: middei (fy) c
• Zulu: imini (zu) 9/10

midnight — see midnight

Anagrams

• nono, no-no

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Middle English

Determiner

noon

1. no (not any)
   • 14^th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue

     Ther was noon auditour koude on him wynne.