Noon

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nuːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

From Old English nōn, 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.

Full definition of noon

Noun

1. (obsolete) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
2. Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
3. (obsolete) The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
• 1885, When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 17:
4. (figurative) The highest point; culmination.
• MotleyIn the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.

Synonyms

• (twelve o'clock in the day) noontide, noon-time, midday, twelve (o'clock)

Antonyms

• (middle of the night) midnight

Noun

1. The letter Ù† in the Arabic script.

Anagrams

• nono, no-no