English Explanatory Dictionary

noon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
  2. The mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks.
  3. The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
  4. The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
  5. The highest point; culmination.
verb
  1. To relax or sleep around midday.
noun
  1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.
name
  1. A surname.
noun
  1. An ethnic people who occupy western Senegal.
  2. The language of these people.

Pronunciation

/nuːn/ En-uk-noon.ogg /nun/ en-us-noon.ogg /nʉn/

Word forms

noon noons nooning nooned

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

nones noontide twelve noon of night midday capstone sleep

Antonyms

midnight

Derived words

beforenoon forenoon good noon high noon Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon John-go-to-bed-at-noon midnoon morning-noon-and-night nap-at-noon noon balloon noonday nooner noon-flower noonflower noon fly noon gun noonish noonlight noonly noonmark noonmeat noonsie noonstead noontime noon-time nuncheon prenoon sleep-at-noon solar noon
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