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noontide

noun

Etymology

From Middle English non-tyde, from Old English nōntīd (“noontide”), equivalent to noon + tide.

  1. inherited from nōntīd — “noontide”
  2. inherited from non-tyde

Definitions

  1. Midday, noon.

    • […] I haue bedymn'd / The Noone tide Sun, call'd forth the mutenous windes, / And twixt the greene Sea, and the azur'd vault / Set roaring warre: […]
    • The favorite noontide mess of the Andalusian peasantry; consisting of cucumbers shred fine, bread-crumbs, oil, vinegar, and water fresh from the spring.
    • Around them all, Negroes carried gunboats of mashed potatoes, spinach, shrimp, zucchini, pot roast, to the long, glittering steam tables, preparing to feed a noontide invasion of Yoyodyne workers.

  2. Climax

    Climax; high point.

    • Yet there are noble passages in his later poems: and even the latest have their own peculiar charm of serenity and kindliness,—a tranquil sunset, as it were, succeeding not unmeetly to the fiery splendours of his noontide course.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for noontide. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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