noon

See also: ñoon and no-on

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuːn/

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• Rhymes: -uːn

Etymology 1

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.

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:
4. (figuratively) The highest point; culmination.
   • Motley

     In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.

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 ^{(Category: en:Times of day)}

Translations

midday

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Ainu: トノㇱキ ‎(tonoski)
• Albanian: drekë (sq) ?, mesditë (sq), drekëhera
• Arabic: ظُهْر (ar) m ‎(ẓuhr)

  Egyptian Arabic: ظهر m ‎(ḍohr)

  Hijazi Arabic: ظُهُر m ‎(ḍuhur)

• Armenian: կեսօր (hy) ‎(kesōr)
• Asturian: meudía m, mediudía m
• Avar: please add this translation if you can
• Azeri: günorta (az)
• Belarusian: по́ўдзень m ‎(póŭdzjenʹ), по́лудзень m ‎(póludzjenʹ)
• Breton: kreisteiz (br) m
• Burmese: နေ့လယ် (my) ‎(ne.lai), မွန်းတည့် (my) ‎(mwan:tany.)
• Catalan: migdia (ca) m
• Chamicuro: yas̈htijka mo'sojko
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 正午 (zh) ‎(zhèngwǔ)

• Crimean Tatar: üyle
• Czech: poledne (cs) n
• Danish: middag (da) c
• Dutch: middag (nl) m
• Esperanto: tagmezo
• Ewe: ŋdɔ
• Faroese: middagur m
• Finnish: keskipäivä (fi), puolipäivä (fi)
• French: midi (fr) m
• Galician: mediodía m
• Georgian: შუადღე ‎(šuadɣe)
• German: Mittag (de) m
• Greek: μεσημέρι (el) n ‎(mesiméri)
• Guaraní: asaje, asajepyte
• Hawaiian: awakea
• Hebrew: צהריים (he) f ‎(tsohoráyim)
• Hindi: दोपहर (hi) m ‎(dophar)
• Hungarian: dél (hu)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} tengah hari
• Interlingua: mediedie, meridie
• Irish: nóin f
• Italian: mezzogiorno (it) m
• Japanese: 正午 (ja) ‎(しょうご, shōgo), 真昼 ‎(まひる, mahiru)
• Kazakh: талтүс ‎(taltüs)
• Khmer: ថ្ងៃត្រង់ ‎(tŋay trɑŋ)
• Korean: 정오 (ko) ‎(jeong-o) (正午 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: نیوه‌ڕۆ

• Lao: ເວລາທ່ຽງມື້ ‎(wē lā thīang mư̄)

• Latin: meridies (la) m, meridianum tempus n, medium diei n
• Latvian: dienas vidus m, pusdiena f
• Lithuanian: vidurdienis (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Mëtteg m
• Macedonian: пла́дне n ‎(pládne)
• Malay:

  Rumi: tengah hari, tengari

  Jawi: تڠه هاري, تڠاري

• Maltese: nofsinhar m
• Maori: poupoutanga o te rā, poutūmārō, poutūmārōtanga, tūhoetanga
• Mazanderani: چاشت ‎(cašt), چاشت‌سری ‎(caštseri)
• Mongolian: үд (mn) ‎(üd), өдөр дунд ‎(ödör dund)
• Navajo: ałnéʼéʼááh
• Ngarrindjeri: gauwel
• Norman: méjeu m (Guernsey)
• Northern Kankanay: kag-aw
• Norwegian: non (no) m (archaic)

  Bokmål: middag (no) m

  Nynorsk: middag m

• Novial: medidie
• Occitan: miègjorn (oc) m
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: غرمه (ps) ‎(ğarma)
• Persian: ظهر (fa) ‎(zohr)
• Polish: południe (pl) n
• Portuguese: meio-dia (pt) m
• Romanian: amiază (ro) f, miezul zilei (ro) n, mijloc de zi n
• Russian: по́лдень (ru) m ‎(póldenʹ)
• Sardinian: mesu die
• Scottish Gaelic: meadhan-là m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: подне n

  Roman: podne (sh) n

• Slovak: poludnie n
• Slovene: poldan (sl) m
• Spanish: mediodía (es) m
• Swahili: adhuuri class 9/10, saa sita, mchana (sw), adhuhuri (sw)
• Swedish: middag (sv) c
• Tagalog: tanghali, n.t.
• Telugu: మధ్యాహ్నము (te) ‎(madhyāhnamu)
• Thai: เที่ยงวัน (th) ‎(tîang wan)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Tupinambá: asaîé
• Turkish: öğle (tr), günorta (tr)
• Tuvan: дүш ‎(düš)
• Ukrainian: по́лудень m ‎(póludenʹ), пі́вдень (uk) m ‎(pívdenʹ)
• Urdu: دوپہر m ‎(dopahar)
• Vietnamese: buổi trưa
• Volapük: zedel (vo)
• Welsh: canol dydd (cy) m, hanner dydd
• West Frisian: middei c
• Zazaki: dehir, hel
• Zulu: imini (zu) class 9/10

midnight — see midnight

Verb

noon ‎(third-person singular simple present noons, present participle nooning, simple past and past participle nooned)

1. To relax or sleep around midday
   • 1906, Andy Adams, The Double Trail

     Well, we crossed and nooned, lying around on purpose to give them a good lead, and when we hit the trail back in these sand-hills, there he was, not a mile ahead, and you can see there was no chance to get around.

   • 1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Chapter XX

     Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple—man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook.

   • 1853, Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle

     We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning, the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake.

Etymology 2

Noun

noon ‎(plural noons)

1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.

Anagrams

• nono, no-no

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Middle English

Determiner

noon

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

     Ther was noon auditour koude on him wynne.