noon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.

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

2. 2
   noun

   The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.

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

3. 3
   noun

   The highest point; culmination.

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

4. 4
   verb

   To relax or sleep around midday.

   We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning, the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake.

5. 5
   noun

   the middle of the day

6. 6
   noun

   The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.

7. 7
   noun

   The letter ن in the Arabic script.

8. 8
   name

   A surname.

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.