noon

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  Twas noon-tide on a summer day, and in a hammock bruin lay
• WordNet 3.6
  • n noon the middle of the day
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• Interesting fact: In Arizona it is illegal to take naked photographs before noon on Sunday.
• • a Noon Belonging to midday; occurring at midday; meridional.
  • Noon Hence, the highest point; culmination. "In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed."
  • a Noon nōn No. See the Note under No.
  • Noon The middle of the day; midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime.
  • v. i Noon To take rest and refreshment at noon.
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• Interesting fact: The official time ball for the U.S. is on top of the U.S. naval Observatory in Washington, DC As early as 1845, the U.S. Navy dropped a time ball every noon from atop a building on a hill overlooking Washington, DC. People from many miles could set their watches at noon. Ships anchored in the Potomac River could check their chronometers.
• • n noon The ninth hour of the day according to Roman and ecclesiastical reckoning, namely the ninth hour from sunrise, or the middle hour between midday and sunset—that is, about 3 p. m.; later, the ecclesiastical hour of nones, at any time from midday till the ninth hour.
  • n noon Midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime.
  • n noon The middle or culminating point of any course; the time of greatest brilliancy or power; the prime.
  • n noon plural The noonday meal. Compare nones, 2.
  • noon Meridional.
  • noon To rest at noon or during the warm part of the day.
  • noon A Middle English form of none.
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• Interesting fact: The initials for morning and evening are based on latin words—ante meridiem and post meridiem. "Ante," of course means "before" and "post" means "after." "Meridiem" means "noon."
• • n Noon nōōn the ninth hour of the day in Roman and ecclesiastical reckoning, three o'clock P.M.: afterwards (when the church service for the ninth hour, called Nones, was shifted to midday) midday: twelve o'clock: middle: height
  • adj Noon belonging to midday: meridional
  • v.i Noon to rest at noon
  • adj Noon pertaining to midday: meridional
  • adj Noon pertaining to noon: meridional
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• Bob Hope

  

  “I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.”
• Robertson Davies

  

  “A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
• Emily Dickinson

  

  “His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!”
• Charles Krauthammer

  

  “There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.”
• James Howell

  

  “He that has the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.”
• William Blake

  

  “Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”

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