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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Twelve o'clock in the daytime; midday.
  2. n. The time or point in the sun's path at which the sun is on the local meridian. Also called noontide, noontime.
  3. n. The highest point; the zenith.
  4. n. Archaic Midnight.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The ninth hour of the day according to Roman and ecclesiastical reckoning, namely the ninth hour from sunrise, or the middle hour between midday and sunset—that is, about 3 p. m.; later, the ecclesiastical hour of nones, at any time from midday till the ninth hour.
  2. n. Midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime.
  3. n. The middle or culminating point of any course; the time of greatest brilliancy or power; the prime.
  4. n. plural The noonday meal. Compare nones, 2.
  5. Meridional.
  6. To rest at noon or during the warm part of the day.
  7. A Middle English form of none.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
  2. n. Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
  3. n. obsolete The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete No. See the Note under No.
  2. n. The middle of the day; midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime.
  3. n. Hence, the highest point; culmination.
  4. adj. Belonging to midday; occurring at midday; meridional.
  5. v. To take rest and refreshment at noon.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the middle of the day

Etymologies

  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. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English non, from Old English nōn, canonical hour of nones (3 P.M. in early Middle Ages), from Late Latin nōna (hōra), ninth (hour after sunrise), nones, feminine sing. of Latin nōnus, ninth; see newn̥ in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “_At Forty-three_" which he calls the noon hour of life -- "_man must live what he believes or he will eventually believe as he lives_.”

    Catholic Problems in Western Canada

  • “The troop halted for what they called their noon meat at the abode of a hospitable Yorkshire knight; but King Henry, in order that the good gentleman's means should not be overtasked, had given directions that only the ladies and the princes should enter the house, while the rest of the suite should take their meal at the village inn.”

    The Caged Lion

  • “I think the young kid who catches a 7-pound largemouth off the family dock at high noon is probably just lucky.”

    Lucky vs. Good

  • “The claim that CS tear gas was injected in any quantity before noon is a lie.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Waco

  • “Because they worked mornin ', noon, an' night, all hands, women an 'kids.”

    CHAPTER I

  • “The comment about duals at noon is what you like??”

    Obama Claims ‘Wild Bill’ Heritage in a Challenge to McCain - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

  • “The best take on the shoot-out at high noon from a fun movie adapted from a great book”

    Can a bold-talking one-eyed fat man be a hero-king?

  • “If the only way to get a shower before noon is to pop in Baby Einstein, then chat baby up the rest of the day to cover the lost vocabulary. -- m”

    Uh-oh

  • “Miller; “for we call noon the dinner-hour at Kennaquhair?””

    The Monastery

  • “No. The shootout on Main Street at high noon is an invention.”

    10 Things the Irritate David E.

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. midday
  1. culmination
  1. meridional
  1. noonday
  1. meridian

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. time of day
  1. hour

same context (20)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. midnight
  2. dawn
  3. afternoon
  4. sunset
  1. midday
  2. sunrise
  3. daylight
  4. a.m
  1. twilight
  2. daybreak
  3. sunshine
  4. sun
  1. noonday
  2. summer
  3. P.M.
  4. morn
  1. weather
  2. forenoon
  3. night
  4. breeze

rhymes (64)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Bethune
  2. Boone
  3. Calhoun
  4. June
  5. Karun
  6. Kuhn
  7. Moon
  8. Noone
  9. Rangoon
  10. Sassoon
  11. Toon
  12. Tune
  1. afternoon
  2. attune
  3. baboon
  4. balloon
  5. bassoon
  6. boon
  7. brune
  8. buffoon
  9. cardoon
  10. cartoon
  11. choon
  12. cocoon
  1. commune
  2. contrabassoon
  3. coon
  4. croon
  5. dune
  6. festoon
  7. galloon
  8. goon
  9. harpoon
  10. hewn
  11. hoon
  12. immune
  1. impugn
  2. inopportune
  3. kroon
  4. lagoon
  5. lampoon
  6. loon
  7. maroon
  8. monsoon
  9. moon
  10. moone
  11. noone
  12. opportune
  1. picayune
  2. platoon
  3. pontoon
  4. poon
  5. prune
  6. raccoon
  7. rune
  8. saloon
  9. soon
  10. spoon
  11. strewn
  12. swoon
  1. toon
  2. tune
  3. tycoon
  4. typhoon

reverse dictionary (100)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. noon-flower
  2. nooning
  3. non
  4. none
  5. sleep-at-noon
  6. noontime
  7. morning
  8. noontide
  9. afternoon
  10. day's work
  11. verb phrase
  12. hour
  13. civil time
  14. yesternoon
  15. day
  16. forenoon
  17. fudge
  18. unit
  19. undern
  20. get
  1. put
  2. mean noon
  3. mean sun
  4. noon
  5. dipleidoscope
  6. go
  7. heteroscian
  8. midday
  9. mid-noon
  10. noon-mark
  11. noonmeat
  12. noonstead
  13. post meridiem
  14. sun-southing
  15. Koestler
  16. Angelus
  17. antemeridian
  18. antiscians
  19. ascii
  20. ante meridiem
  1. ascian
  2. blasty
  3. foreday
  4. foredays
  5. limbat
  6. high noon
  7. eighty
  8. Cooper
  9. pull
  10. IM
  11. knock
  12. m.
  13. sext
  14. noonday
  15. astronomical day
  16. call
  17. hand
  18. ring
  19. should
  20. lift
  1. meridian
  2. politics
  3. whatever
  4. P.M.
  5. postmeridian
  6. blow
  7. chime
  8. disperse
  9. evening
  10. Kelly
  11. figure
  12. fail
  13. then
  14. morn
  15. morning time
  16. a.m
  17. nones
  18. nunchion
  19. periœci
  20. astronomical time
  1. a.
  2. amphiscii
  3. antiscian
  4. due
  5. fetch
  6. gay
  7. high
  8. just
  9. muezzin
  10. nacket
  11. out
  12. p
  13. sail
  14. lag
  15. m
  16. n
  17. terce
  18. tide
  19. Time
  20. time-ball

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