Meaning of noon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.
2. A surname.
3. An ethnic people who occupy western Senegal.
   countable
4. The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
   countable, uncountable
5. The language of these people.
   uncountable
6. The mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks.
   countable, uncountable
7. twelve o'clock midday. They arrived at noon. twaalfuur ظُهْر пладне meio dia poledne der Mittag middag μεσημέριmediodía keskpäev نيمروز؛ ظهر keskipäivä midi צָהֳרַיִים मध्याह्न podne dél tengah hari hádegi, miðdegi mezzogiorno 正午 낮 12시 vidurdienis dienas vidus waktu tengah hari middag midt på dagen, middagpołudnie نيمه ورځ meio dia prânz полдень poludnie poldan podne middag, klockan tolv på dagen เที่ยง öğle vakti, öğle 中午 полудень, південь نصف النہار، دوپہر buổi trưa 中午
8. The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
9. mediodía.
10. Twelve o'clock in the daytime; midday.
11. The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
12. The highest point; culmination.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
13. The highest point; the zenith.
14. Archaic Midnight.
    Archaic
15. the middle of the day; 12 o'clock in the daytime or the time or point at which the sun crosses the local meridian
16. poetic the highest, brightest, or most important part; culmination
    poetic
17. midday.
18. twelve o'clock in the daytime.
19. the highest, brightest, or finest point or part.

Equivalents

Examples

“On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.”

“The race is due to start at noon sharp.”

“The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.”

“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.”

“So the sad mother at the noon of night / From bloody Memphis stole her silent flight […].”

“When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents […].”

“In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.”

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