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noon

Pronunciation: /nuːn/

The English word “noon” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
  2. The mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks.
  3. The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
  4. The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
  5. The highest point; culmination.
  6. The letter ن in the Arabic script.

verb

  1. To relax or sleep around midday.

Etymology

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.

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