NOONTIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does noontide mean? 

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

1. the middle of the day

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOONTIDE (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 ("noontide" is a kind of...):

hour; time of day (clock time)

Holonyms ("noontide" 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 

One noontide I was by Franklin Swinton's gate, when up he rides with a yeoman pricker at his heels.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Having sought and obtained an audience of the superintendent during the noontide recreation, I told her I had a prospect of getting a new situation where the salary would be double what I now received (for at Lowood I only got 15 pounds per annum); and requested she would break the matter for me to Mr. Brocklehurst, or some of the committee, and ascertain whether they would permit me to mention them as references.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A swift messenger had the night before sped round to the outlying dependencies of the Abbey, and had left the summons for every monk to be back in the cloisters by the third hour after noontide.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)