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noon

noun
/nuːn/UK/nun/US/nʉn/

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.

  1. inherited from nōn — “the ninth hour”
  2. inherited from noen

Definitions

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

    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.
    • The race is due to start at noon sharp.

  2. The corresponding time in the middle of the night

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

  3. The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise

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

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. The highest point

      The highest point; culmination.

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

    2. To relax or sleep around midday.

      • 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.
      • Well, we crossed and nooned, lying around on purpose to give them a good lead, and when we hit the trail back in these sand-hills, there he was, not a mile ahead, and you can see there was no chance to get around

    3. The letter ن in the Arabic script.

    4. A surname.

    5. An ethnic people who occupy western Senegal.

    6. The language of these people.

The neighborhood

Derived

beforenoon, forenoon, good noon, high noon, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon, John-go-to-bed-at-noon, midnoon, morning-noon-and-night, nap-at-noon, noon balloon, noonday, nooner, noon-flower, noonflower, noon fly, noon gun, noonish, noonlight, noonly, noonmark, noonmeat, noonsie, noonstead, noontime, noon-time, nuncheon, prenoon, sleep-at-noon, solar noon

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at noon. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01noon02afternoon03lunchtime04lunch05midday

A definitional loop anchored at noon. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at noon

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA