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noon
CEFRA2
/nuːn/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
Twelve o'clock in the middle of the day.
- 02
noun
Extra detailThe corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
Examples
You have to get this work finished by noon.
You'll have this composition written by noon tomorrow, won't you?
At a glance
Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Also pronounced
- /nun/
- /nʉn/
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsThe time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
The mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks.
The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
More examples
In contextWe should be there by noon.
On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
The race is due to start at noon sharp.
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Origin
noun
From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English nōn (“the ninth hour”), from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin nōna (“ninth hour”) (short for nōna hōra), feminine of nōnus (“ninth”). Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.