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noon

/nuːn//nun/

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

Noun (1)

noon (countable and uncountable, plural noons)

  1. 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.
    1. The mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks.
  2. (archaic) 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 […].1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 116
    • When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents […].1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 17
    Synonyms:
    noon of night
  3. (obsolete) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
    Synonyms:
    nones, midday
  4. (figuratively) The highest point; culmination.
    • In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    capstone

Verb

noon (third-person singular simple present noons, present participle nooning, simple past and past participle nooned)

  1. (intransitive) 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...1853, Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle
    • 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.1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Chapter XX
    Synonyms:
    sleep

Noun (2)

noon (plural noons)

  1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.

Proper noun capitalized: Noon

Noon (plural Noons)

  1. A surname.

Noun (3) capitalized: Noon

Noon (countable and uncountable, plural Noons)

  1. (countable) An ethnic people who occupy western Senegal.
  2. (uncountable) The language of these people.

noon meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

noon in Hindi

midday
दोपहर dophar

noon in Tamil

நண்பகல்

noon in Marathi

midday
दुपार dupār

noon in Urdu

midday
دوپَہَر dopahar, ظُہْر zuhr
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noon in Bengali
দুপুর dupur
noon in Telugu
మధ్యాహ్నము madhyāhnamu
noon in Malayalam
ഉച്ച ucca, മദ്ധ്യാഹ്നം maddhyāhnaṁ
noon in Kannada
ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ, ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ ಹನ್ನೆರಡು ಗಂಟೆ, ನಡುಹಗಲು
noon in Punjabi
پیشیں peśīṉ
noon in Sanskrit
मध्याह्न madhyāhna
noon in Assamese
দুপৰীয়া duporia, দিপৰীয়া diporia
noon in Pashto
غرمه ğarma
noon in Tagalog
tanghali, n.t.
noon in Arabic
ظهر, ظَهِيرَة ẓahīra, رَوَاح rawāḥ, قَائِلَة qāʔila
noon in Malay
tengah hari, tengari
noon in Indonesian
siang, tengah hari
noon in Thai
เที่ยงวัน tîiang-wan, เที่ยง tîiang
noon in Vietnamese
trưa, buổi trưa
noon in Myanmar
နေ့လယ် ne.lai, မွန်းတည့် mwan:tany.

Examples of noon in a sentence

  • But around noon, another fire erupted, according to the CSB.2024 November 24, Chris Boyette, “Investigators release update on BioLab chemical plant fire probe”, in CNN:
  • 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.1853, Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle:
  • They nooned at a spring and squatted about the cold and blackened sticks of some former fire and ate cold beans and tortillas out of a newspaper.1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 157:

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Forms of noon

Noun
pluralnoons
pluralNoons
Verb
third-person singular presentnoons
present participlenooning
past participlenooned
pastnooned
Proper noun
pluralNoons

Plural of noon: noons

Origin of noon

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.

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Questions about noon

What does noon mean?
Noon means the time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
What is noon in Hindi?
Noon in Hindi is दोपहर (dophar). See Noon meaning in Hindi.
How do you use noon in a sentence?
But around noon, another fire erupted, according to the CSB.
What part of speech is noon?
Noon can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce noon?
Noon is pronounced /nuːn/ (UK).
What is the plural of noon?
The plural of noon is noons.

Words near noon in the dictionary

  1. noological
  2. noologies
  3. noologist
  4. noologists
  5. noology
  6. noon
  7. noon balloon
  8. noon balloons
  9. noon flies
  10. noon fly
  11. noon gun

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: noon (page history and authors); Noon (page history and authors); noon (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); দুপুর (Bengali) (page history and authors); noon (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); پیشیں (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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