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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

... about the future, because there remained no further great impediment between us and Cape Fear River, which I felt assured was by that time in possession of our friends. The day was so wet that we all kept in-doors; and about noon General Blair invited us to take lunch with him. We passed down into the basement dining-room, where the regular family table was spread with an excellent meal; and during its progress I was asked to take some wine, which ...

— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan

... his mind was made up, wasted no time. The clock marked a quarter before twelve when he climbed up out of the lazarette, replaced the trapdoor, and hurried to set the table. He served the company through the noon meal, although it was all he could do to refrain from capsizing the big tureen of split-pea soup over the head of Simon Nishikanta. What did effectually withstrain him was the knowledge of the act ...

— Michael, Brother of Jerry • Jack London

... different styles was measured from Kennersley Manor, three miles south of the White Hart, nearly into Crawley. Snow fell on the tenth, the day before the match; Lord Lonsdale borrowed a snow plough and sent it over the road. At noon on the day of the race the horses and carriages were taken to the course; at five and twenty minutes to one Lord Lonsdale drove up in a pair-horse brougham; at one o'clock to the second he trotted his single horse, War Paint, to the starting-point, and War Paint bounded down the road. War ...

— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker

... About noon two colonists came to the gospodarstwo and asked Slimak to sell them butter and potatoes and hay. He let them have the former without bargaining, but ...

— Selected Polish Tales • Various

... in two faces stared, and stared The being without blood or breath, The stilly spectre, horror-haired, That haunteth all he murdereth; At noon, at midnight stared, and stared When sunrise flashed, when sunset flared, ...

— Iolaeus - The man that was a ghost • James A. Mackereth

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