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noontime

noun

Etymology

From noon + time, perhaps an innovation of earlier English noontide (“noontime”), from Middle English noon tijd, from Old English nōntīd (“noontime”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English merian, merion (“noontime”) from Old French meriiene, merīane (“noontime”).

  1. derived from *deh₂y-✻
  2. derived from *deh₂imō✻
  3. inherited from *tīmô✻
  4. inherited from *tīmō✻
  5. inherited from tīma — “time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”
  6. inherited from tyme
  7. compounded as noontime — “noon + time”

Definitions

  1. Noon.

  2. Approximately noon.

    • the noontime hours

  3. The time at which something peaks in some way (e.g., in vitality, in influence, in…

    The time at which something peaks in some way (e.g., in vitality, in influence, in reknown) (by analogy with the waxing of the sun each day).

The neighborhood

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