noon
Plural: noons
Noun
- Twelve o'clock in the daytime; midday.
- the middle of the day
- The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
- 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.
- The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
- The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
- The highest point; culmination.
- The letter ن in the Arabic script.
Verb
- To relax or sleep around midday.
Examples
- On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
- Our Scrabble tournaments often ran from morning until well past noon.
- The race is due to start at noon sharp.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English nōn (“the ninth hour”), 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.
Synonyms
high noon, midday, noonday, noontide, twelve noon, apex, capstone, midnight, nones, noon of night, sleep, twelve
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 4
noon: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordnoon: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
noon: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary