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noontides

noontides is the plural of noontide.

Meaning of noontide

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...
    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

Questions about noontides

What is noontides the plural of?
Noontides is the plural of noontide.

Words near noontides in the dictionary

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

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