Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The station of the sun at noon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The position of the sun at noon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The position of the
sun atmidday .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But no sooner had the sun reached the noonstead than Photogen began to remember the past night in the shadow of that which was at hand, and to remember it with shame.
Harper's Young People, December 23, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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But no sooner had the sun reached the noonstead, than Photogen began to remember the past night in the shadow of that which was at hand, and to remember it with shame.
Stephen Archer and Other Tales George MacDonald 1864
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Atlantic, "that one almost expects a great merchant navy to come sailing into Kilkhaven -- sunk to the water's edge with silks, and ivory, and spices, and apes, and peacocks, like the ships of Solomon that we read about -- just as the sun gets up to the noonstead."
The Seaboard Parish, Complete George MacDonald 1864
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