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Definitions of noon

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

Antonyms for noon

bottom, minimum, foot, night, rock bottom, base, abyss, nadir, nightly, nocturnal, nighttime, darkness.

Quotes of noon

  1. If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon – George D. Aiken
  2. I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions. – Traci Bingham
  3. Think in the morning. Act in the noon Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. – William Blake
  4. Never get out of bed before noon – Charles Bukowski
  5. A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. – Robertson Davies
  6. The 1, 000 tasting portions were to be served over a period of six hours, starting at noon so we would have to prep those another way, to keep them as fresh as possible. – Rocco DiSpirito
  7. The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8 :30 a. m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9 :30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon – Margaret Haddix
  8. O sweet, delusive Noon Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind. – Helen Hunt Jackson
  9. At noon on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips. – Allen Johnson
  10. A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson. – James Longstreet
  11. When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon – Jena Malone
  12. Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. – Tennessee Williams
  13. You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. – Woodrow Wilson

Usage examples for noon

  1. “ 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
  2. “ It is now clear as the sun at noon ” – The Big Otter by R.M. Ballantyne
  3. “ Noon nodded, and his lips moved. ” – Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories by Henry Seton Merriman
  4. “ " Good- by, then, till noon she said. ” – The Real Adventure by Henry Kitchell Webster
  5. “ " It'll have to be some time before tomorrow noon Johnson answered. ” – Delayed Action by Charles Vincent De Vet
  6. “ " 'Tell me about that baby, ' she says to me one noon ” – Friendship Village by Zona Gale
  7. “ One hundred in the shade at noon ” – Miss Ellis's Mission by Mary P. Wells Smith
  8. “ Don't look for me before noon ” – Together by Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
  9. “ 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
  10. “ He called about noon ” – The Electronic Mind Reader by John Blaine
  11. “ Dinner came exactly at noon supper precisely at six. ” – A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
  12. “ He seldom goes out before noon ” – Monsieur Cherami by Charles Paul de Kock
  13. “ 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
  14. “ 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
  15. “ I think I'll be here until noon ” – Ministry of Disturbance by Henry Beam Piper
  16. “ 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
  17. “ I think of her, morning, noon and night. ” – The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins
  18. “ Lloyd did not see the paper until noon ” – The Little Colonel at Boarding-School by Annie Fellows Johnston
  19. “ 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
  20. “ We has breakfast together the next mawnin' about noon ” – Blister Jones by John Taintor Foote

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