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Noon

[n_ˈuː_n], [nˈuːn], [nˈuːn]

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Definitions of noon

  1. Of or pertaining to noon; meridional; as, the midday sun.
  2. No. See the Note under No.
  3. The middle of the day; midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime.
  4. Hence, the highest point; culmination.
  5. Belonging to midday; occurring at midday; meridional.
  6. To take rest and refreshment at noon.
  7. Pertaining to midday.
  8. The middle of the day: twelve o'clock; height or time of greatest brilliancy or power; as, the noon of life.
  9. ( orig.) The ninth hour of the day, or three o'clock p. m.: afterwards ( the church service for the ninth hour being shifted to mid- day) mid- day: twelve o'clock: middle: height.
  10. Belonging to mid- day: meridional.
  11. That time of day when the sun is in the meridian; midday.
  12. Pertaining to noon.
  13. The middle of the day; meridian height; height.
  14. Mid- day; 12 o'clock; middle; height.
  15. Happening at noon; meridional.
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Usage examples for noon

  1. But I didn't have no need for being afraid, for it seems she'd driven into town about noon an' hadn't got back. – The Case and The Girl by Randall Parrish
  2. Noon nodded, and his lips moved. – Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories by Henry Seton Merriman
  3. I think I'll be here until noon – Ministry of Disturbance by Henry Beam Piper
  4. But noon is past, and it is time for you to go. – French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France
  5. I told him I'd let him know what I would do sometime before to- morrow noon and as soon as I could I got rid of him. – Mary Wollaston by Henry Kitchell Webster
  6. She took charge of the note for the doctor, and by noon I was on my journey. – Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories Edna's Sacrifice; Who Was the Thief?; The Ghost; The Two Brothers; and What He Left by Frances Henshaw Baden
  7. We has breakfast together the next mawnin' about noon – Blister Jones by John Taintor Foote
  8. " 'Tell me about that baby, ' she says to me one noon – Friendship Village by Zona Gale
  9. Don't look for me before noon – Together by Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
  10. It is now clear as the sun at noon – The Big Otter by R.M. Ballantyne
  11. He called about noon – The Electronic Mind Reader by John Blaine
  12. " It'll have to be some time before tomorrow noon Johnson answered. – Delayed Action by Charles Vincent De Vet
  13. Rest well and at noon to- morrow be ready; I will be with you then. – Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch
  14. He seldom goes out before noon – Monsieur Cherami by Charles Paul de Kock
  15. Dinner came exactly at noon supper precisely at six. – A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
  16. The whole was only over by an hour before noon – Unknown to History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte M. Yonge
  17. One hundred in the shade at noon – Miss Ellis's Mission by Mary P. Wells Smith
  18. Lloyd did not see the paper until noon – The Little Colonel at Boarding-School by Annie Fellows Johnston
  19. " Good- by, then, till noon she said. – The Real Adventure by Henry Kitchell Webster
  20. I think of her, morning, noon and night. – The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins
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