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noon.

The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/nuːn/Received-Pronunciation/nun/General-American/nʉn/Northern-Ireland, Scotland
  1. The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.

    countable · uncountable
    On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
    The race is due to start at noon sharp.
  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.

    countable · uncountable
  3. The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.

    archaic · countable · uncountable
  4. The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.

    countable · obsolete · uncountable
  5. The highest point; culmination.

    countable · figuratively · uncountable
Where this word comes from

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.

verb/nuːn/Received-Pronunciation/nun/General-American/nʉn/Northern-Ireland, Scotland
  1. To relax or sleep around midday.

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

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.

noun/nuːn/Received-Pronunciation/nun/General-American/nʉn/Northern-Ireland, Scotland
  1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.

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