noon

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[edit] Etymology

Old English nōn, from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin nōna ‘ninth hour’ (short for nōna hōra), feminine of nōnus ‘ninth’. Cognate with Flemish noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.

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[edit] Noun

Singular
noon

Plural
noons

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. 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

[edit] Synonyms

noontide, noon-time, midday, twelve (o'clock)

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