noontime
noontime noun: noon.
Noun
noontime (plural noontimes)
- Noon.
- Synonyms:
- high noon
- Approximately noon.
- the noontime hours
- 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).
- We should so organize our rank and mobilize our forces that our influence may not be dissipated before the advancing hosts of quackery and ignorance. This we can do effectively if only the wise and successful ones among our leaders can be induced to forgo the dolce far niente of the noontime of...1890, J.W. Collins, “Society proceedings of the Colorado State Medical Society”, in The Omaha Clinic, volume 3, number 5, retrieved 20 Mar 2021, page 131
Synonyms of noontime
Forms of noontime
| plural | noontimes |
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Origin of noontime
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”).
Questions about noontime
- What does noontime mean?
- Noontime means noon.
- What part of speech is noontime?
- Noontime is a noun.
- What is the plural of noontime?
- The plural of noontime is noontimes.
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