noon
//nuːn//
Forms
- Plural
- noons
- present (v1)
- noon
- past (v2)
- nooned
- past participle (v3)
- nooned
- present participle
- nooning
- 3rd person singular
- noons
Definitions
1.The highest point; culmination.
- In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.
2.The letter ن in the Arabic script.
- This train left Aomori thirty minutes late, so we won't arrive at Tokyo before noon, I'm afraid.
3.An ethnic people who occupy western Senegal.
- This train left Aomori thirty minutes late, so we won't arrive at Tokyo before noon, I'm afraid.
4.The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
- The race is due to start at noon sharp.
- On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
- 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.
1.To relax or sleep around midday.
- 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.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4238
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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.