noon

noun

1. 1

   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.

   The race is due to start at noon sharp.

   The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.

   The fire was put out by around 8:10 a.m. by the Rockdale County Fire Rescue. But around noon, another fire erupted, according to the CSB.

2. 2

   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.

3. 3

   archaicThe 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 […].

   When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents […].

4. 4

   obsoleteThe ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.

5. 5

   figurativeThe highest point; culmination.

   In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.

verb

1. 1

   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 and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake.

   Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple—man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook.

   Well, we crossed and nooned, lying around on purpose to give them a good lead, and when we hit the trail back in these sand-hills, there he was, not a mile ahead, and you can see there was no chance to get around

   They nooned at a spring and squatted about the cold and blackened sticks of some former fire and ate cold beans and tortillas out of a newspaper.

noun

1. 1

   The letter ن in the Arabic script.

Forms

plural

noons

past tense

nooned

past participle

nooned

present participle

nooning

third person singular

noons