noon

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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: ظهر (ar) m (Zuhr)

  Egyptian Arabic: ظهر m (ḍohr)

• Armenian: կեսօր (kesōr)
• Asturian: meudía m, mediudía m
• Avar: please add this translation if you can
• Azeri: günorta
• Belarusian: по́ўдзень m (póŭdzjenʹ)
• Breton: kreisteiz (br) m
• Burmese: 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 (šuadḡe)
• German: Mittag (de) m
• Greek: μεσημέρι (el) n (mesiméri)
• Guaraní: asaje, asajepyte
• Guernésiais: méjeu m
• Hawaiian: awakea
• Hebrew: צהריים f (tsohoráyim)
• Hindi: दोपहर m (dopahar)
• 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)
• 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
• Luxembourgish: Mëtteg m
• Macedonian: пладне n (pládne)
• Malay:

  Rumi: tengah hari, tengari

  Jawi: تڠه هاري, تڠاري

• Maltese: nofsinhar m
• Mazanderani: چاشت (cašt), چاشت‌سری (caštseri)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: ałnéʼéʼááh
• Ngarrindjeri: gauwel
• 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
• Polish: południe (pl) n
• Portuguese: meio-dia (pt) m
• Romanian: amiază (ro) f, miezul zilei (ro) n, mijloc de zi n
• Russian: полдень (ru) m (pólden’)
• Sardinian: mesu die
• Scottish Gaelic: meadhan-là m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: подне n

  Roman: podne (sh) 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)
• Tuvan: дүш (düš)
• Ukrainian: полудень m (poluden')
• Urdu: دوپہر m (dopahar)
• Vietnamese: buổi trưa
• Volapük: zedel (vo)
• Welsh: canol dydd (cy) m, hanner dydd
• West Frisian: middei c
• Zulu: imini (zu) class 9/10

midnight — see midnight

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.