noon
/nun/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon."
- "The race is due to start at noon sharp."
- "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 terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin."
- "The fire was put out by around 8:10 a.m. by the Rockdale County Fire Rescue. But around noon, another fire erupted, according to the CSB."
- "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 […]."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: noen, nōn
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /nun/
- British English: /nuːn/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Law.