Noon
WordNet
noun
(1) The middle of the day
WiktionaryText
Etymology
Old English nōn, from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin nōna ‘ninth hour’ (short for nōna hōra), feminine of nōnus ‘ninth’. Cognate with Flemish noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.
Noun
- The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
- Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
- The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
- 1885: When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 17