What does Noon mean?

Definitions for Noon
nunnoon

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. noon, twelve noon, high noon, midday, noonday, noontidenoun

    the middle of the day

Wiktionary

  1. noonnoun

    The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.

  2. noonnoun

    Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.

  3. noonnoun

    The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.

  4. Etymology: From non, from a Germanic borrowing of classical nona (short for nona hora), feminine of nonus. Cognate with Flemish noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. NOONnoun

    Etymology: non , Saxon; nawn, Welsh; none, Erse; supposed to be derived from nona, Latin, the ninth hour, at which their cœna or chief meal was eaten; whence the other nations called the time of their dinner or chief meal, though earlier in the day, by the same name.

    Fetch forth the stocks, there shall he sit ’till noon. ——
    ’Till noon! ’till night, my lord, William Shakespeare, K. Lear.

    The day already half his race had run,
    And summon’d him to due repast at noon. Dryden.

    If I turn my eyes at noon towards the sun, I cannot avoid the ideas which the light or sun produces in me. John Locke.

    Full before him at the noon of night,
    He saw a quire of ladies. Dryden.

Wikipedia

  1. Noon

    Noon (or midday) is 12 o'clock in the daytime. It is written as 12 noon, 12:00 m. (for meridiem, literally 12:00 midday), 12 p.m. (for post meridiem, literally "after midday"), 12 pm, or 12:00 (using a 24-hour clock) or 1200 (military time). Solar noon is the time when the Sun appears to contact the local celestial meridian. This is when the Sun reaches its apparent highest point in the sky, at 12 noon apparent solar time and can be observed using a sundial. The local or clock time of solar noon depends on the longitude and date, with Daylight Savings Time tending to place solar noon closer to 1:00pm.

ChatGPT

  1. noon

    Noon refers to the middle of the day, specifically the moment when the Sun is at its highest point in the sky or directly above the observer. This usually happens around 12:00 PM in local standard time.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Noonadjective

    no. See the Note under No

  2. Noonnoun

    the middle of the day; midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime

  3. Noonnoun

    hence, the highest point; culmination

  4. Noonadjective

    belonging to midday; occurring at midday; meridional

  5. Noonverb

    to take rest and refreshment at noon

  6. Etymology: [AS. nn, orig., the ninth hour, fr. L. nona (sc. hora) the ninth hour, then applied to the church services (called nones) at that hour, the time of which was afterwards changed to noon. See Nine, and cf. Nones, Nunchion.]

Wikidata

  1. Noon

    Noon is usually defined as 12 o'clock in the daytime. However the term midday is used colloquially to refer to a range of time, usually 11-1. The word noon is also used informally to mean midday regarding the location of the sun, as opposed to the middle of one's day. Although this is a time around the middle of the day when people in many countries take a lunch break. Solar noon is 12 o'clock apparent solar time, or around 12 – 1 p.m. local time depending on daylight saving time, the moment when the sun crosses the meridian and is about at its highest elevation in the sky. The clock time of solar noon depends on the longitude and date. The opposite of noon is midnight. In many cultures in the Northern Hemisphere, noon had ancient geographic associations with the direction "south". Remnants of the noon = south association are preserved in the words for noon in French and Italian, both of which also refer to the southern parts of the respective countries. Modern Polish and Ukrainian go a step farther, with the words for noon also meaning "south" and the words for "midnight" also meaning "north".

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Noon

    nōōn, n. 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. belonging to midday: meridional.—v.i. to rest at noon.—n. Noon′day, midday: the time of greatest prosperity.—adj. pertaining to midday: meridional.—ns. Noon′ing, a rest about noon: a repast at noon; Noon′tide, the tide or time of noon: midday.—adj. pertaining to noon: meridional. [A.S. nón-tíd (noontide)—L. nona (hora), the ninth (hour).]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. noon

    Mid-day.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. NOON

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Noon is ranked #9473 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Noon surname appeared 3,433 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Noon.

    81.6% or 2,803 total occurrences were White.
    6.7% or 230 total occurrences were Asian.
    4.3% or 149 total occurrences were Black.
    3.4% or 117 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.1% or 75 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.7% or 59 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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  1. nono

  2. no-no

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Noon in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Noon in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Noon in a Sentence

  1. Bob Hope:

    I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

  2. 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.

  3. Photographer Ken Hermann:

    All the pictures are shot within noon and 3 p.m. when you have the sun straight from above, which gives (the portraits) this very hard light, and then I just used some studio light as a fill to make it a little bit more soft.

  4. Ahmad Sheikho:

    The air strike at the central vegetable market in (Maarat al-Numan) was around noon. Another strike at the same time hit Kafr Nubl's own market.

  5. Emily Dickinson:

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

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