noon
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English nōn (“the ninth hour”), 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[edit]
noon (countable and uncountable, 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:
- (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.
- Motley
Synonyms[edit]
- (12 pm): midday, twelve, 12 o'clock, 12 noon, noon-time; 12 pm (sometimes proscribed); noontide, sext (archaic); nones, undern, undermeal, underntide, undertide (obsolete)
Antonyms[edit]
- (middle of the night): midnight
See also[edit]
- (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, evening, dusk, night, midnight (Category: en:Times of day)
Translations[edit]
midday
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midnight — see midnight
Verb[edit]
noon (third-person singular simple present noons, present participle nooning, simple past and past participle nooned)
- 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.
- 1906, Andy Adams, The Double Trail
Synonyms[edit]
- See Wikisaurus:sleep
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
noon (plural noons)
- The letter ن in the Arabic script.
Anagrams[edit]
Arapaho[edit]
Noun[edit]
noon
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
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