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单词 high noon
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high noonn.

Brit. /ˌhʌɪ ˈnuːn/, U.S. /ˌhaɪ ˈnun/
Forms: see high adj. and noon n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: high adj., noon n.
Etymology: < high adj. + noon n. Compare Anglo-Norman halte none and Middle French haute none midday, early afternoon (c1240 or earlier).
1. Midday. Cf. high adj. 16a.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > noon or midday > [noun]
noontideeOE
middayOE
overnoonOE
noontimeOE
noona1225
undern13..
high noon1370
undern-tide1387
meridianc1390
merionc1390
meridiec1392
midoverunderna1400
high dayc1425
noon season1461
nooninga1500
noonday1535
midnoon1580
mid-seasona1616
M1741
noon-mark1842
noon1852
sun-hot1894
1370 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 181 Yai sall stande yar trewly wyrkande..als lang als yai may se skilfully for till wyrke, yf yt be alle werkday; outher, elles, till itte be hegh none smytyn by ye clocke, when halyday falles atte none.
1493 Tretyse of Loue (de Worde) sig. Fijv/1 From that same hour becam the sonne derke vnto hye none.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxxxii. 322 Tyle it was past hye none.
1614 G. Markham 2nd Bk. Eng. Husbandman ii. vii. 99 To fodder them [sc. fat cattell] Morning, Euening, and high-noone is fully sufficient.
1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica II. iii. vi. 540 Our brave countrymen, despising all these precautions, as too ridiculous, or too effeminate, courageously face the sun at high noon.
1850 Chinese Repos. Oct. 550 They may take tea and fruits after high noon, but not rice.
1882 M. Fearn His Charge ii. 14 One hand was held up, shading her eyes from the sunlight, for it was little after high noon.
a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) vi. 208 He would, at high noon and under a murderous sun, make the trip from the house to the dock where the ‘Thetis’ was moored.
2012 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 8 Mar. 32/3 It was this sweet, dynamic balance of the air that ancients celebrated when they spoke of a caelum serenum—the magical blue of a Mediterranean sky at high noon.
2. figurative.
a. Chiefly with of or possessive adjective. The culminating or highest point; the peak or zenith.
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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > [noun] > zenith
zenitha1387
vertical point1559
medium coeli1585
high noon1629
vertex1646
vertice1665
1629 F. Hubert Hist. Edward II 145 It is some Comfort (though a wretched one) To know, Our sorrows are at their high noone.
1677 S. Patrick Witnesses to Christianity: Pt. II ii. 78 How glorious will the joy be there, when Sight or Knowledge shall be, if I may so speak, in its high-noon, and Love at its full sea.
1755 D. Swift Ess. Swift vii. 125 He was about the age of five or six and thirty, rising into the high noon of life, judgment, and abilities.
1839 Dearden's Misc. Aug. 518 From the first dawn of our national literature up to its high noon in the Elizabethan age, these songs and ballads continued increasing in sweetness and power.
1874 ‘A. C. Traveler’ Teachings of Ages ii. iv. 260 The human mind, in its high noon of maturity,..viewing principles broadly and calmly from a lofty altitude of thought.
1969 Hispanic Rev. 37 208 The high noon of Charles the Fifth had declined into the somber post-meridian of Philip II.
1993 S. M. Elkins & E. L. McKitrick Age of Federalism (1995) vii. 274 It was now the very high noon of Duer's heyday.
b. Originally U.S. A crucial or pivotal moment; an event or confrontation which is likely to decide the final outcome of a situation.Popularized by the title of the 1952 U.S. film High Noon, a Western which culminates in a gunfight between the hero and a villain who arrives on the train at noon.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [noun] > critical or decisive moment
articlea1398
prick?c1422
crise?1541
push1563
in the nick1565
jump1598
concurrence1605
cardo1609
(the) nick of time (also occasionally opportunity, etc.)1610
edgea1616
climacterical1628
climacteric1633
in the nick-time1650
moment1666
turning-point1836
watershed1854
psychological moment1871
psychical moment1888
moment of truth1932
crunch1939
cruncher1947
high noon1955
break point1959
defining moment1967
midnight1976
1955 Galveston (Texas) Daily Herald 22 June 5/1 It was high noon at the keyboard for the 23-year-old pianist... After slaving and sweating for 17 years to become an overnight sensation, Van Cliburn had come face to face with his future.
1977 Time 21 Nov. 23/1 The coal miners..decided not to press for a pay hike beginning Nov. 1, thus postponing any high noon at the pits until at least next month.
1992 D. Pinckney High Cotton vii. 168 New York City was going bankrupt that summer, unraveling toward its high noon.
2005 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 11 Mar. (World section) a10 With Parliament off on Friday, yesterday was seen as high noon in the standoff.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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