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noontide

noontide noun: midday, noon.

Noun

noontide (plural noontides)

  1. (literary) 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: […]1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
    • The favorite noontide mess of the Andalusian peasantry; consisting of cucumbers shred fine, bread-crumbs, oil, vinegar, and water fresh from the spring.1885, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter LIII, in John Ormsby, transl., The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha […] In Four Vols, volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co. […], →OCLC, part I...
    Synonyms:
    meridian, nones, sext, 12 o'clock, 12 noon, 12 p.m., high noon, meridiem, midday, noon
  2. (figuratively) 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.1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 3, page 28

noontide meaning in Urdu

noontide in Urdu

دوپہر کا وقت

Synonyms of noontide

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Forms of noontide

pluralnoontides

Origin of noontide

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

Questions about noontide

What does noontide mean?
Noontide means midday, noon.
What is noontide in Urdu?
Noontide in Urdu is دوپہر کا وقت. See Noontide meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is noontide?
Noontide is a noun.
What is the plural of noontide?
The plural of noontide is noontides.

Words near noontide in the dictionary

  1. noons of night
  2. noonshine
  3. noonsie
  4. noonsies
  5. noonstead
  6. noontide
  7. noontides
  8. noontime
  9. noontimes
  10. Noonu
  11. noonward

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