NOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does noon mean? 

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

1. the middle of the day

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• 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 ("noon" is a kind of...):

hour; time of day (clock time)

Holonyms ("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 

If he be not at the place whither he is bound, he can only change himself at noon or at exact sunrise or sunset.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

To ensure consistent lighting, they confined imaging to between noon and 2 p.m. local Mars time each day.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Its Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet, NASA)

The time period between dawn and noon.

(Morning, NCI Thesaurus)

The next day at noon, the old woman came to him again with food and drink which he at first refused.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It was a journey of only twenty-four miles, and they began it so early as to be in Gracechurch Street by noon.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But I heard, afterwards, that he was seen to play a lively game at skittles, before noon.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

About noon, I saw coming towards the house a kind of vehicle drawn like a sledge by four Yahoos.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"I'm sorry, Joe," he said at noon, when they knocked off for dinner.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Therefore I shall expect to meet you in the smoking-room of the Charing Cross Hotel at noon on Saturday.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Why, from about noon observation to about six bells.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)