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noon¹

  • /nuːn/ UK
  • /nun/ US
  • /nʉn/ Northern Ireland, Scotland

Rhymes with -uːn

Where it comes from

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.

noun noons

  1. countable, uncountable The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon. On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
  2. countable, uncountable The mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks.
  3. archaic, countable, uncountable The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight. So the sad mother at the noon of night / From bloody Memphis stole her silent flight […].
  4. countable, obsolete, uncountable The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
  5. countable, figuratively, uncountable The highest point; culmination. In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.

Similar: nones, noontide, twelve

verb noons · nooning · nooned

  1. intransitive To relax or sleep around midday. 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 a

noon²

  • /nuːn/ UK
  • /nun/ US
  • /nʉn/ Northern Ireland, Scotland

Rhymes with -uːn

noun noons

  1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.

Noon³

proper noun Noons

  1. A surname.

Noon⁴

noun Noons

  1. countable An ethnic people who occupy western Senegal.
  2. uncountable The language of these people.

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