noon
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
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.
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Noun [edit]
noon (plural noons)
- (obsolete) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
- Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
- (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
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Antonyms [edit]
- (middle of the night): midnight
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Translations [edit]
midday
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midnight — see midnight
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Middle English [edit]
Determiner [edit]
noon
- no (not any)
- 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
- Ther was noon auditour koude on him wynne.
- 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue