noon

English

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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 Flemish noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nuːn/

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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, (twelve o'clock at night): nove

Translations

midday

Albanian: drekë Arabic: ظهر (ar) (Zuhr) m. Armenian: կեսօր (hy) (kesòr) Azeri: günorta (az) Bosnian: podne (bs) n. Breton: kreisteiz m. Catalan: migdia (ca) m. Chamicuro: yas̈htijka mo'sojko Chinese: Mandarin: 正午 (zh) (zhèngwǔ) Crimean Tatar: üyle Croatian: pódne (hr) n. 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. Georgian: შუადღე (ka) (šuadḡe) German: Mittag (de) m. Greek: μεσημέρι (el) (mesiméri) n. Guaraní: asaje, asajepyte Hindi: दोपहर (hi) (dopahar) m. Hungarian: dél (hu) Indonesian: tengah hari Interlingua: mediedie, meridie Irish: nóin (ga) f. Italian: mezzogiorno (it) m.

Japanese: 正午 (ja) (しょうご, shōgo), 真昼 (ja) (まひる, mahiru) Korean: 정오 (ko) (jeong-o) (正午 (ko)) Kurdish: نیوه‌ڕۆ Latin: meridies (la) m., meridianum tempus (la) n., medium diei (la) n. Luxembourgish: Mëtteg (lb) m. Macedonian: пладне (mk) (pládne) n. Maltese: nofsinhar m. Ngarrindjeri: gauwel 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. Serbian: подне (podne) n. Slovene: poldan (sl) m. Spanish: mediodía (es) m. Swahili: adhuuri (nc 9/10), saa sita, mchana (sw), adhuhuri (sw) Swedish: middag (sv) c. Tagalog: tanghali, n.t. Thai: เที่ยงวัน (th) Tupinambá: asaîé Turkish: öğle (tr) Ukrainian: південь (uk) (pívden') m. Urdu: دوپہر (ur) (dopahar) m. Volapük: zedel (vo) West Frisian: middei (fy) c.

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.