HIGH NOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high noon mean? 

• HIGH NOON (noun)
  The noun HIGH NOON has 1 sense:

1. the middle of the day

  Familiarity information: HIGH NOON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH NOON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The middle of the day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

high noon; midday; noon; noonday; noontide; twelve noon

Hypernyms ("high noon" is a kind of...):

hour; time of day (clock time)

Holonyms ("high noon" is a part of...):

24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)

 Context examples 

On the surface of Kepler-186f, the brightness of its star at high noon is only as bright as our sun appears to us about an hour before sunset.

(Kepler Telescope Discovers First Earth-Size Planet in 'Habitable Zone', NASA)

Stop; there may be a clue after all, if we can find why to-day his paroxysms came on at high noon and at sunset.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

What does this here blessed tarpaulin go and do, said Mr. Peggotty, with his face one high noon of enjoyment, but he loses that there art of his to our little Em'ly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As a result, ultrahot Jupiters' daysides broil in a perpetual high noon.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)

I really did not expect any Grace to answer; for the laugh was as tragic, as preternatural a laugh as any I ever heard; and, but that it was high noon, and that no circumstance of ghostliness accompanied the curious cachinnation; but that neither scene nor season favoured fear, I should have been superstitiously afraid.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)