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YWCA, 818 W. Yakima Ave. 10-11 a.m. in English, noon-1 p.m. in Spanish.

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  1. noun Twelve o'clock in the daytime; midday.
  2. noun The time or point in the sun's path at which the sun is on the local meridian. Also called noontide, noontime.
  3. noun The highest point; the zenith.
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  • SHAYNA SLEEPS restlessly in the confines of her own bunk until noon, Aelta's noon, that is. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 05 - May 1999
  • It was more than enough to keep her absorbed in her screen until late after-noon, apart from a quick break at noon to walk Mutton around the scrubland and eat a chicken Caesar salad. —  Booked for Murder—McDermid, Val - Lindsay Gordon 05
  • YWCA, 818 W. Yakima Ave. 10-11 a.m. in English, noon-1 p.m. in Spanish. —  Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News
  • The meetup is set for 8 a.m., with late registration continuing until 9 a.m.; cleanup sweeps will last from 8: 30 - noon, at which time there will be a free lunch of pizza and cold drinks for all volunteers. —  PegasusNews.com stories
  • This same yere upon Estre even afore noon, that is for to say the xxij day of March, the yere of oure lord a m^{l}ccccxxj, the duke of Clarence with manye other lordes were sclayn beyounde the water of Leyre in Fraunce; and manye lordes were taken prisoners the same tyme, of the whiche the erle of Hunt', and the erle of Somerset with hys brother, were principales. —  A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum
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  1. 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.

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  1. from Middle English noon, none, nowne, noyne, non, from Anglo-Saxon nōn, noon, nones (service), = Old Saxon nōn, nuon, nōna = Dutch noen = Middle Low German none = Old High German nōna, Middle High German nōne = Icelandic nōn, nones, = French none = Spanish Portuguese Italian nona, from Latin nōna, the ninth hour of the day, literally ninth (sc. hora, hour), feminine of nōnus, ninth: see nones. Applied orig. to the ninth hour, and later to the service then performed (nones), it came to mean loosely ‘midday,’ and, in exact use, ‘twelve o'clock.’
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