Definitions

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  • adverb At noontimes
  • noun Plural form of noon.

Etymologies

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noon +‎ -s. See -s (Etymology 3)

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See noon

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Examples

  • I never yet met with the navigator who found two 'noons' in the same day, that he was not in danger of shipwreck.

    Homeward Bound or, the Chase James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • We parade alongside the Shift bobbies on noons and as much as possible take work from the shift and deal with it.

    Personal Location Systems « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • There might be a line of spaced trees silhouetted against the horizon, and hot still noons above a wilderness of clover, and Claude Lorrain clouds inscribed remotely into misty azure with only their cumulus part conspicuous against the neutral swoon of the background.

    Nabokov's Art as Story ____Maggie 2008

  • There might be a line of spaced trees silhouetted against the horizon, and hot still noons above a wilderness of clover, and Claude Lorrain clouds inscribed remotely into misty azure with only their cumulus part conspicuous against the neutral swoon of the background.

    Archive 2008-03-01 ____Maggie 2008

  • Nor the blue javelin-flame of the thunderous noons strike fear.

    Edmund Blunden, "Thiepval Wood" Victoria Janssen 2009

  • We belong to the noons of the future as no one in the human history has offered a more coherent philosophy or theology.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • And so it hurtled through the night, tore worlds from orbit, stopped to skim the atmosphere from forest moons and set a small world's sky aflame, the light of seven million noons -

    APED: "whoops" hradzka 2009

  • Wednesday, June 14, 2006 We belong to the noons of the future

    Archive 2009-02-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • We belong to the noons of the future as no one in the human history has offered a more coherent philosophy or theology.

    Legal clutch to retain the next generation Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Wednesday, June 14, 2006 We belong to the noons of the future

    Legal clutch to retain the next generation Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

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