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noun

Noon n.

The middle of the day; midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime.

Hence, the highest point; culmination. "In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed."

High noon, the exact meridian; midday.

Noon of night, midnight. (Poetic)

verb

Noon v. i. To take rest and refreshment at noon.

adjective

Noon adj. No. See the Note under No. (Obs.)

Noon adj. Belonging to midday; occurring at midday; meridional.

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"Noon" Quotes from Famous Books

... followed her in; it must have been to see about Ellen, for he was never known to do such a thing before or since; "I'll tell you what she'll want, and that's a right hot supper. She eat as nigh as possible nothing at all this noon. There ain't much danger of her dancing a hole in your ...

— The Wide, Wide World • Susan Warner

... perform before I leave. Of your honour, monsieur, we will not speak, for reasons into which I need not enter, and I make no appeal to it. But if you have a spark of manhood left, if you are not an utter craven as well as a knave, I shall expect you on the day after tomorrow, at any hour before noon, at the Auberge de la Couronne at Grenade. There, monsieur, if you please, we will adjust our differences. That you may come prepared, and so that no time need be wasted when we meet, I send you the length of ...

— Bardelys the Magnificent • Rafael Sabatini

... ourselves not a moment's rest; even while we were eating we were sharpening the stakes. Ned set the example, and we all imitated him. In more important points, as a leader. Manco showed himself fit to be a chief; but the British seaman, where manual work was concerned, was his superior. By noon we had a very respectable stockade run up, such as might withstand an attack for a short time from any ordinary enemy not possessed of firearms. All the trees and shrubs on the sides of the rock had been cut away, and stones had been piled up near all the more ...

— Manco, the Peruvian Chief - An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas • W.H.G. Kingston

... Not infrequently the noon lunch was made almost impossible because of the order to be back on the job when work commenced. A ten hour stretch of arduous labor, in a climate where incessant rain is the rule for at least six months of the year, was enough to try the strength and patience ...

— The Centralia Conspiracy • Ralph Chaplin

... been said to indicate the intercourse. Frequent were the house-parties at Mount Vernon, and how unstinted hospitality was to kith and kin is shown by many entries in Washington's diary, a single one of which will indicate the rest: "I set out for my return home—at which I arrived a little after noon—And found my Brother Jon Augustine his Wife; Daughter Milly, & Sons Bushrod & Corbin, & the Wife of the first. Mr. Willm Washington & ...

— The True George Washington [10th Ed.] • Paul Leicester Ford

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