noon
IPA: nˈun
noun
- The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
- The mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks.
- (now rare) The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
- (obsolete) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
- (figurative) The highest point; culmination.
- The letter ن in the Arabic script.
- A surname.
verb
- To relax or sleep around midday
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Examples of "noon" in Sentences
- By noon, they should arrive.
- The opposite of noon is midnight.
- The second part of the requiem ended at noon.
- They promised to computerize the records by noon.
- The shady side is not always opposite the noon side.
- The wedding takes place at noon on the auspicious day.
- They could not understand how they should make it by noon.
- Morning is the part of the day usually reckoned from dawn to noon.
- The morning is the part of the day from either midnight or dawn to noon.
- Students recite the Apostles' Creed in the morning, and the Angelus at noon.
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