high noon
Exactly noon; midday (when the sun is at its highest).
The same streets that are inviting and quiet at high noon may be intimidating at night.
noon
UK /nuːn/ US /nun/
noun 8verb 1name 1
Collocations
4(noun.)
ADJ
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The meeting is scheduled for high noon, so we should arrive fifteen minutes early.
high
At high noon, the town square was completely empty because everyone stayed inside to escape the heat.
PREP
around ~, at ~, by ~, till/until ~
PHRASES
morning, noon and night
Definitions
noun
1
The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
The race is due to start at noon sharp.
2
The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
3
The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
So the sad mother at the noon of night / From bloody Memphis stole her silent flight […].
When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents […].
4
The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
5
The highest point; culmination.
In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.
verb
1
To relax or sleep around midday.
We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning, the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake.
Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple—man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook.
noun
1
The letter ن in the Arabic script.
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On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
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The race is due to start at noon sharp.
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The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such t
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We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the sno
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Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple—man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook.
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Well, we crossed and nooned, lying around on purpose to give them a good lead, and when we hit the trail back in these sand-hills, there he was, not a mile ahead, and you can see there was no chance t
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In some senses, noon is marked as archaic, obsolete, figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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