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NOON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The middle of the day
Synonyms:
high noon; midday; noon; noonday; noontide; twelve noon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("noon" is a kind of...):
hour; time of day (clock time)
Holonyms ("noon" is a part of...):
24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)
Context examples:
The first wish of her heart was to improve her acquaintance with Miss Tilney, and almost her first resolution, to seek her for that purpose, in the pump-room at noon.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The old man, leaning on his son, walked each day at noon, when it did not rain, as I found it was called when the heavens poured forth its waters.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Next day, by noon, I was up and dressed, and sat wrapped in a shawl by the nursery hearth.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The final plunge will take place on the day side of Saturn, near local noon, with the spacecraft entering the atmosphere around 10 degrees north latitude.
(Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn, NASA)
On the surface of Kepler-186f, the brightness of its star at high noon is only as bright as our sun appears to us about an hour before sunset.
(Kepler Telescope Discovers First Earth-Size Planet in 'Habitable Zone', NASA)
But at noon, when the sun was over their heads, they did not know which was east and which was west, and that was the reason they were lost in the great fields.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Everybody dawdled that morning, and it was noon before the girls found energy enough even to take up their worsted work.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was a simple affair, now, to go forth in the morning and return by noon with a boatload of seals.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
As a result, ultrahot Jupiters' daysides broil in a perpetual high noon.
(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)
This was felt to be a considerable amendment; and though they all met at the Great House at rather an early breakfast hour, and set off very punctually, it was so much past noon before the two carriages, Mr Musgrove's coach containing the four ladies, and Charles's curricle, in which he drove Captain Wentworth, were descending the long hill into Lyme, and entering upon the still steeper street of the town itself, that it was very evident they would not have more than time for looking about them, before the light and warmth of the day were gone.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
