noon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: noons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: noons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nooning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nooned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nooned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
The race is due to start at noon sharp.
The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
The fire was put out by around 8:10 a.m. by the Rockdale County Fire Rescue. But around noon, another fire erupted, according to the CSB.
gloss: The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: So the sad mother at the noon of night / From bloody Memphis stole her silent flight […].
When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents […].
gloss: The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The highest point; culmination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.
gloss: To relax or sleep around midday.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
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.
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
They nooned at a spring and squatted about the cold and blackened sticks of some former fire and ate cold beans and tortillas out of a newspaper.
Synonyms: nones
noontide
twelve
Antonyms: midnight
Derived words: beforenoon
forenoon
good noon
high noon
Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon
John-go-to-bed-at-noon
midnoon
morning-noon-and-night
nap-at-noon
noon balloon
noonday
nooner
noon-flower
noonflower
noon fly
noon gun
noonish
noonlight
noonly
noonmark
noonmeat
noonsie
noonstead
noontime
noon-time
nuncheon
prenoon
sleep-at-noon
solar noon
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