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noonn.

Brit. /nuːn/, U.S. /nun/
Forms: Old English–1500s non, Middle English nonne, Middle English noun, Middle English noune, Middle English noyn, Middle English noyne, Middle English noynne, Middle English–1500s noen, Middle English–1500s none, Middle English–1600s noone, Middle English– noon, 1500s–1600s nowne; English regional (northern) 1800s nean, 1800s– neean, 1800s– neunn, 1800s– noin, 1800s– nune; Scottish pre-1700 newne, pre-1700 noin, pre-1700 noine, pre-1700 non, pre-1700 none, pre-1700 nonne, pre-1700 noone, pre-1700 noun, pre-1700 noune, pre-1700 novne, pre-1700 nowin, pre-1700 nown, pre-1700 nowne, pre-1700 noyne, pre-1700 nuyin, pre-1700 nuyn, pre-1700 nvne, pre-1700 nwine, pre-1700 nwn, pre-1700 nwne, pre-1700 1700s– noon, pre-1700 1700s– nune, pre-1700 (1900s– (Shetland)) nun, 1900s– neen, 1900s– nin.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with (with variations in gender and declensional class) Middle Dutch nōne , noene (Belgian Dutch noen ), Old Saxon nōn , nōna (Middle Low German nōne ), Old High German nōna (Middle High German nōne ; German †None , †Non ), Old Icelandic nón (Norwegian non ), also (weak) nóna < classical Latin nōna ninth hour of the day, in post-classical Latin also canonical office for the ninth hour (from c400), use as noun (short for nōna hōra ninth hour) of feminine singular of nōnus ninth (see nona- comb. form). Compare none n. and nones n.1 In Shetland use in sense 5 probably < the unattested Norn reflex of the early Scandinavian word represented by Old Icelandic nón the time about three o'clock in the afternoon (see above). N.E.D. (1907) suggests that the change in the time denoted by noon , from about 3 o'clock to about 12 o'clock, probably resulted from anticipation of the ecclesiastical office or of a meal hour. In continental French this change appears to be first recorded in the second half of the 14th cent. (Froissart), but already in the second half of the 13th cent. in Anglo-Norman (see further W. Rothwell ‘The Missing Link in English Etymology’ in Medium Ævum 60 (1991) 188). Compare further French nouene midday meal (in regional use). The shift is also seen in Dutch noen midday (16th cent.). By the 14th cent. midday appears to have been the ordinary sense of the word in English, although in many examples there is no clear indication of the time intended. The sense ‘afternoon’, attested from the 17th cent. (chiefly in the phrase morning, noon, and evening: see sense 5), does not represent a continuation of the earlier sense, except in Shetland use where it probably represents an independent borrowing from Norn (see above). The common phrases before noon and after noon have given rise to the nouns forenoon n. and afternoon n., adv., and int. For high noon see high adj. 16a.
†1.
a. The ninth hour of the day, reckoned from sunrise according to the Roman method, or about three o'clock in the afternoon. Obsolete.Chiefly as a direct rendering of Latin nona (hora), and in later use most frequent in accounts of the crucifixion of Christ.
ΚΠ
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. lxiv. 140 Sele drincan on þreo tida, on undern, on middæg, on non.
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Mark xv. 34 Et hora nona exclamauit iesus uoce magna : & tid non ofcliopade se hælend stefne mið micle.
OE Beowulf 1600 Ða com non dæges. Næs ofgeafon hwate Scyldingas.
OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 4 May 82 Cristne menn sceolon alætan heora ða woroldlican weorc..oð ða nigeðan tid, þæt is þonne non.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 45 (MED) Ic ham ȝeue reste..from non on saterdei a þa cume monedeis lihting.
a1275 Body & Soul (Trin. Cambr. B.14.39) in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 31 (MED) Þu noldes friday festen to no [read non], Ne þe setterday almesse don.
a1300 Passion our Lord 478 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 50 Hit wes welneyh mydday, þo þusternesse com, In alle Middenherde fort þet hit wes non.
c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) 3237 (MED) Þe sonne schon, hit drouȝ to vnder..Middai com, hit drouȝ te noune.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Mark xv. 33 Derknessis ben maad..til in to the nynthe our, that is, noon.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 988 (MED) Adam..was wroght at vndern tide, At middai eue draun of his side..þai war bath don out at none.
a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 21 (MED) Yef þai ete at midday, sho salle ete at noon; yef þai ete at noon, sho sal ete at euin.
a1475 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 277 Ȝet he was in suffryng..Tyl it was pacyd non.
a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 954 (MED) Vpon þe cros he shal be done And deie aȝenst þe time of none.
b. Christian Church. The hour or office of nones. Cf. none n. 1. Obsolete (literary and rare after 15th cent.).
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society > faith > worship > canonical hours > nones (3 p.m.) > [noun]
noonOE
nones1709
none1845
OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) 40 Eornostlice on þysum tidum we herien urne scyppend.., on middæg, on non, on æfen.
OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) (1993) xxv. 44 Peracta nona dicant..psalmos : gedonum none cweþan..sealmas.
OE Ælfric's Colloquy (1991) 44 Iterum surreximus et cantauimus nonam : eft we arison & sungon non.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 15 Ȝe muhe seggen..non eauer efter mete.
c1300 St. Brendan (Harl.) 225 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 225 Þe foweles sunge..matyns..& vnderne siþþe, & middai & afterwardes non.
c1330 Sir Degare (Auch.) 148 in W. H. French & C. B. Hale Middle Eng. Metrical Romances (1930) 292 (MED) Þe seruise was al idone And ipassed ouer þe none.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 970 (MED) Y wlde nat leue for here to werche Þoght men rong noun at þe cherche.
?c1430 (c1400) Rule St. Francis (Corpus Cambr.) in F. D. Matthew Eng. Wks. Wyclif (1880) 41 (MED) Prime, tierce, vndern, and noon, for eche of hem seuene pater nostris.
c1440 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Thornton) 219 Were thritty trentalles done, By-twyxene vndrone and none, My saule were saluede fulle sone.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 11 I haue yete to saye my sexte, none, and myn euensonge.
1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xlii. 200 At matin, noon, and vespers was Hafen Slawkenbergius his recreation and delight.
1890 J. S. Blackie Song of Heroes i. 58 Meats and drinks, and times and seasons, Feasts that wait upon the moon, Prayers with formal iteration Conned at matin-bell or noon.
2.
a. The time when the sun reaches the meridian; twelve o'clock in the day; midday.
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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
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 137 (MED) Þanne hie alles fasten sculen, ðane fasteð hie all þat none uneaðe; ðanne after non drinkeð all daiȝ.
a1275 St. Margaret (Trin. Cambr.) l. 156 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 52 Þe holi gost from heuene to hire com ful son..ant scon ase briste so sonne abouten non.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 14039 Þa þe non wes icumen, þa weoren Peohtes ouer-cumen..alle dai heo fluȝen.
c1300 St. Michael (Laud) 405 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 311 (MED) Þe sonne a-rist and [o]uer þe is at none.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 890 (MED) Bitvene þe none and þe niȝt Last þe batayle.
c1390 Gregorius (Vernon) (1914) 10 (MED) Þou seost cleiȝ clyngen on cliue Im someres dai aboute þe None.
a1450 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe ii. §3. 88 From xi of the clokke before the houre of noon til oon of the clokke next folewyng.
c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 14698 (MED) He þat rewls hym ryȝt mydnyȝt, morn, and noyne, he has dole.
1472–3 Rolls of Parl. VI. 23/2 The houre of xii, comenly called the houre of none.
c1480 (a1400) St. Ninian 769 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 326 Fasting..fryday fra þe novne til sonday at þe mes be done.
1529 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 324 Whiche I trust shalbe to morow at nyght or wenesday by none.
1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 332 Fra sex houris in the morning to xi houris at none, and fra ane eftir none to sex houris at evin.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 81v Before noone when it waxeth hotte..you must digge it.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 154 It is not lesum to pack, or peill fish, bot fra eleven houres, to twa after nune.
1659–60 A. Hay Diary (1901) 140 Very rainie till nonne.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 141 'Twas Noon; the sultry Dog-star from the Sky Scorch'd Indian Swains. View more context for this quotation
1731 N. Amhurst Coll. Poems 45 In that old, spacious Court, Where Members just at Noon resort.
1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 58 Now at noon..The season smiles,..And has the warmth of May.
1812 R. Woodhouse Elem. Treat. Astron. i. 5 Noon is determined by the Sun being on the meridian.
1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 160 Whose hearts have a look southwards, and are open To the whole noon of nature.
1863 H. W. Longfellow Prelude iii, in Tales Wayside Inn 2 But noon and night, the panting teams Stop under the great oaks.
1905 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 11 Aug. 14 At noon a bountiful basket lunch was served under the trees in the park.
1963 Times 8 Feb. 15/7 The number of microfilariæ in the bloodstream is maximal at noon and minimal at midnight.
1991 Newsweek 11 Mar. 36/3 The occupiers set 600 of the country's 950 oil wells ablaze, a smoky inferno that created dusk at noon in Kuwait.
b. figurative. The culminating or highest point, the peak. Cf. noontide n. 3.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > state of or advanced condition > highest point
prickOE
heighta1050
full1340
higha1398
pointc1400
roofa1500
top-castle1548
ruff1549
acmea1568
tip1567
noontide1578
high tide1579
superlative1583
summity1588
spring tide1593
meridian1594
period1595
apogee1600
punctilio1601
high-water mark1602
noon1609
zenith1610
auge1611
apex1624
culmination1633
cumble1640
culmen1646
climax1647
topc1650
cumulus1659
summit1661
perigeum1670
highest1688
consummation1698
stretch1741
high point1787
perihelion1804
summary1831
comble1832
heading up1857
climacteric1870
flashpoint1878
tip-end1885
peak1902
noontime1903
Omega point1981
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets vii. sig. B2v Thou, thy selfe out-going in thy noon: Vnlok'd on diest.
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. x. 232 When the one hath his Noone, the other inioyes his mid-night.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 683 Thou oft Amidst thir highth of noon, Changest thy countenance. View more context for this quotation
1730 L. Welsted & J. M. Smythe One Epist. to Pope 11 Each..rising Wit..Still hopes your Sun-set, while he views your Noon.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna viii. xxix. 191 In the bright wisdom of youth's breathless noon.
1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile 1960 in Poems I In the set noon of time, shall one from Heaven..Descend before a woman.
1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 229 Shadows..deaden the colors of the noon of life.
1901 F. Norris Octopus ii. 651 Men—motes in the sunshine—perished, were shot down in the very noon of life.
1991 H. Davies Shanghai Owner of Bonsai Shop 80 Denial, accidie..suffering's dead noon.
†c. The most important hour of the day. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > noon or midday > [noun] > most important hour of the day
noon1712
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 454. ¶2 The fashionable World, who have made Two a Clock the Noon of the Day.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxxiv. 131 At the noon of London time, you see a light-yellow carriage.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. vi. 63 It is 5 o'clock, the noon in Pall Mall.
d. The midday sun. Also figurative: brightness, clarity, openness. rare.
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the world > the universe > sun > [noun] > at specific time or position
suneOE
rising sun1557
setting sun1560
noon-sun1601
midnight sun1787
noon1858
1802 W. R. Spencer Urania i. 12 Never can noon's maturer ray That charm of orient light display.
1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci iv. i. 60 She shall stand shelterless in the broad noon Of public scorn.
1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia vi. 53 The noon is blazing down upon the Syrian plain.
1912 H. Newbolt Poems 70 He saw the April noon on his books aglow, The wistaria trailing in at the window wide.
e. as postmodifier distinguishing midday from midnight, esp. in twelve noon.
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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
1852 U.S. Democratic Rev. Sept. 229 Between the hours of eleven forenoon and twelve noon.
1858 R. M. Ballantyne Coral Island xiv. 163 We had to guess the hour of twelve midnight..but in regard to twelve noon we are quite positive.
1891 Boston Jrnl. 25 Nov. 3/1 A National Republican Convention..will be held..on..the 7th June, 1892, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of nominating candidates.
1951 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Mar. (B ed.) 1/7 No figures were available for the afternoon telecasts, but..the average tune-in from 12 noon to 6 P.M. here is about twelve per cent.
1963 L. Diack Labrador Nurse iii. xviii. 91 There was the radio-telephone..and there was always a daily ‘sched’ at twelve noon.
1995 Farmers Weekly 21 July 102 (advt.) Annual production sale of 250 Texel x shearlings and ewes on behalf of Paul Slater, Monday 24th July 1995 at 12 noon.
3. A midday meal. Cf. noon meal n. at Compounds 1a, noonmeat n., nuncheon n. Now English regional.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > midday meal or lunch
noonmeatOE
noona1225
midday meala1425
noon meal?c1460
Sunday dinner1602
nooning1649
luncheona1652
noon dinner1656
nummit1777
tiffin1800
sandwich lunch1828
lunch1829
twelve hours1844
free lunch1848
midday dinner1852
Sunday lunch1854
nooning-meal1865
Mittagessen1876
business lunch1880
tray lunch1936
pub lunch1954
working lunch1954
liquid lunch1970
three-martini lunch1972
a1225 (?OE) MS Vesp. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 231 (MED) Me..sceolde..ȝiefe him his formemete, þat him to lang ne þuhte to abiden of fe [read oð se] laford to þe none inn come.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8281 Þat folc hafde imaked non.
c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) 358 (MED) Go nu..& send him after none.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. ix. 290 (MED) Bere hem none cromes, Til alle þyn nedy neihebores haue none ymaked.
c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) 1988 (MED) What is your vse To do..aftyr the none..Tille men to souper shalle gone?
c1475 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 56 For his chambre brekefast, none, souper, [etc.].
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iv. f. 62v And bad Ilkane that thay suld pas..and make him for the none, And to thair dine suld dres thame haistelie.
1801 W. Seward Attempt illustr. Dial. Burton 6 in Tour Yordes Cave Its good anuf at a nune, bat an huz Wimmen muddent hev a sup a Te we mud be hungard.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Dial. Cumberland (ed. 2) 66/1 Neùnn, noon, dinner-time.
4.
a. The time of night corresponding to midday; midnight. Frequently in (the) noon of night. Cf. noontide n. 2.
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the world > time > day and night > night > [noun] > midnight
midnighteOE
middle nighteOE
noontide1568
noon1605
witching hour1762
long hour1807
midnight1813
midnight-tide1918
zero hour1939
1605 B. Jonson Sejanus v. i. 325 Sei. When arriu'd you? Mac. About the noone of Night. View more context for this quotation
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. 55 While mischeifs,..At noone of Night are a working.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 318 Hoary Simples,..With brazen Sickles reap'd at Noon of Night.
1747 T. Warton Pleasures of Melancholy 6 Nor undelightful is the solemn noon Of night.
1796 J. Moser Hermit of Caucasus I. 21 At the noon of night their ears were assailed by the..sound of a trumpet.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas xlvii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 44 When the weary moon was in the wane, Or in the noon of interlunar night.
1867 J. Ingelow Dreams that came True xliv For the moon Was shining in, and night was at the noon.
1886 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. We sat conversing and carousing in companionage till the noon of the night.
1928 F. C. Mason Unchanging Mask 36 Why would he come at the noon of night When my hands were cold?
1992 S. Barker Guarding Border 76 Someone who will relieve what I am told is my loneliness And make love..every night, at noon.
†b. The place of the moon at midnight. Cf. noontide n. 2. Obsolete.
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > movement of moon > [noun] > position
Part of Fortune1579
noon?1606
noontide1823
?1606 M. Drayton Man in Moone in Poemes sig. H Now the goodly moon Was in the full, and at her nighted noon.
1634 F. Quarles Mildreiados in Divine Poems (rev. ed.) 525 The Queene of light,..in her young Noone of night.
1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 39 To behold the wandring Moon, Riding neer her highest noon.
1887 E. Douglas Phantasmagoria 36 The new Jerusalem..Where is no noon of sun or moon.
5. = afternoon n., adv., and int.; the time from midday until night. Usually in morning, noon, and night and variants: continually, all the time.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > afternoon > [noun]
evenOE
overnoonOE
midovernoona1325
afternoonc1330
mid-afternoona1400
undern1470
after-dinner1576
postmeridian1583
evening1587
post meridiem1647
none1656
noon1667
postnoon1686
aft1772
p.m.1776
after1906
pip emma1912
arvo1933
pee em1933
afty1966
1667 S. Woodford Paraphr. Psalms David 152 For God himself shall guide my Way, To Him at morning, noon, and night I'le pray.
1668 F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue II. ii. 69 They for those three days offer up Prayers Morning Noon and Night, that God would be merciful to the Soul departed.
1733 M. Masters Poems Several Occasions 165 Arise, great God!..And bless my Morn, my Noon and Night.
a1781 W. J. Mickle Siege Marseilles i. 237 All noon she linger'd pensive by the window..till silence with the evening sudden closed The dreadful day.
1805 W. Godwin Fleetwood II. iii. 38 I saw him, morning, noon, and night.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. xvii. 225 One leading feature of that long cold..had been the hollow moaning sound ever present in the air, morning, noon, and night-time.
1922 ‘Restalrig’ Sheep's Heid 42 Her heid's oot o' the windy mornin', nin, an' nicht.
1932 A. Horsbøl tr. J. Jakobsen Etymol. Dict. Norn Lang. in Shetland II Nun, afternoon, towards or at sunset, esp. in the winter months; hit is comin' to nun.
1996 F. McCourt Angela's Ashes (1997) vi. 175 If you were to punch everyone who has an answer you'd be punching morning noon and night.

Compounds

C1.
a. General attributive.
noon-beam n.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > ray of > at noon
noon-beam1690
1690 T. Betterton Prophetess III. i. 38 Her Eyes, like bright Noon-beams, shoot thorow me.
1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad 407 The sultry noon-beam shines the lovers' aid.
1885 L. Larcom Poet. Wks. The gentian hid a thoughtful eye Beneath dark fringes, blue and shy, Only by warmest noon-beams won, To meet the welcome of the sun.
noon-bell n.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > signal marking the time > [noun] > bell, gun, etc. > bell rung at specific time
noon-bellOE
OE tr. Theodulf of Orleans Capitula (Corpus Cambr.) xxxix. 389 Monegra monna gewuna is, þonne hig fæstan sceolan, þæt sona swa hig þa nonbellan gehyrað, hig to mete foð.
c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) 2250 (MED) So stod Beues in þat þring Til noun belle be-gan to ring.
1801 W. Sotheby Julian & Agnes II. i. 19 The noon-bell strikes. Come; holy duties claim unworldly thoughts.
1989 M. Miller Coll. Poems 133 Neither your lips moving..Nor the nigh noon bell..can tell your years.
noon-dew n.
ΚΠ
1868 Harper's Mag. Dec. 34/1 Like all other regions, this is chiefly indebted to the lark, which sheds its ‘noon-dew’ on the forlornest and fairest of them alike.
1953 E. Sitwell Gardeners & Astronomers 9 Holding small stars for seeds And planets of noon-dew.
noon dinner n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > midday meal or lunch
noonmeatOE
noona1225
midday meala1425
noon meal?c1460
Sunday dinner1602
nooning1649
luncheona1652
noon dinner1656
nummit1777
tiffin1800
sandwich lunch1828
lunch1829
twelve hours1844
free lunch1848
midday dinner1852
Sunday lunch1854
nooning-meal1865
Mittagessen1876
business lunch1880
tray lunch1936
pub lunch1954
working lunch1954
liquid lunch1970
three-martini lunch1972
1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked lxiv. 191 Leav a breakfast, and noon-dinner to labourers.
1874 Scribner's Monthly 234/2 One March day she came at the appointed hour, soon after our noon dinner.
1996 D. Hall Old Life 44 Before noon dinner I wandered in the cut-over hayfield.
noon heat n.
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c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 92 (MED) This noon hete of þe someris day, Whanne þe sunne moost hiȝest is.
1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 673 The next day he caused the said rag that was laid up in the chest, to be exposed to the Noon-heat in one of the Dog-days.
1867 ‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags II. i. 12 It was just noon, and there were few could brave the noon-heat as she did.
2002 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) (Nexis) 7 Mar. 2 Students blobbed in the sun to consume the smooth chocolate cake (before the icing melted in the noon heat).
noon-height n.
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1869 D. G. Rossetti Let. 26 Aug. (1965) II. 720 Every sense..Now labours o'er the stark noon-height To reach the sunset's desolate disarray.
1997 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 21 June 1 b The noon height of the sun, the highest above the southern horizon for the year, will change very little for several days.
noon meal n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > midday meal or lunch
noonmeatOE
noona1225
midday meala1425
noon meal?c1460
Sunday dinner1602
nooning1649
luncheona1652
noon dinner1656
nummit1777
tiffin1800
sandwich lunch1828
lunch1829
twelve hours1844
free lunch1848
midday dinner1852
Sunday lunch1854
nooning-meal1865
Mittagessen1876
business lunch1880
tray lunch1936
pub lunch1954
working lunch1954
liquid lunch1970
three-martini lunch1972
?c1460 Medulla Gram. (BL Add.) in A. Way Promptorium Parvulorum (1853) II. 360 (note) Anticenia, a nonemele.
1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life I. xxiv. 195 Her husband was at his work..and had taken his noon-meal with him.
1989 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 69 229 They [sc. municipal records] will no doubt soon be lost, due to use of the loft as a makeshift kitchen for the municipal employees' noon meal.
noon-point n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > sun > position > [noun] > at noon
noon rest1538
noonstead1556
noon-point1578
perigee1595
apogee1640
perigeum1646
1578 Bk. Christian Prayers in Private Prayers (1851) 444 That sun of thine..is always at noon-point with them, ever bright, ever shining.
1868 E. Atherstone Fall of Nineveh (ed. 2) II. xxiii. 217 Surely..the sun Shall to his noon-point climb.
noon prayer n.
ΚΠ
c1425 Prose Versions New Test.: Deeds (Cambr.) (1904) iii. 1 Peter soþely ande saynte John ȝoden into þo temple atte þo houre of none-preyer.
1852 Harper's Mag. May 759/1 Another rises, and bows, and falls, kissing the floor, and muttering the noon prayer.
1991 P. Holton Mother without Mask (BNC) 154 Back to the majlis for coffee again, and home in time for noon prayers.
noon-reek n.
ΚΠ
1919 J. Joyce Ulysses viii. [Lestrygonians] in Little Rev. Jan. 33 The heavy noonreek tickled the top of Mr. Bloom's gullet.
noon rest n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > sun > position > [noun] > at noon
noon rest1538
noonstead1556
noon-point1578
perigee1595
apogee1640
perigeum1646
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Meridiatio, noone reste.
1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xxviii. 615 We found water enough for our noon rest in the hollowed surface of a rock.
2000 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 30 Apr. d1 The guard told me they were about to close for the noon rest.
† noon season n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
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
1461 C. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 197 Ȝowre letter was delyueryd..abowthe noone seison.
1661 Princess Cloria ii. 135 She arrived at the Forrest, where they intended to repose themselves for the noon season, that required some shade against the suns violence.
noon shadow n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [noun] > casting of a shadow > a shadow > specific
contrary shadow?a1560
right shadow?a1560
noon shadowa1646
foreshadow1834
silhouette1843
a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 300 Of Oxford..the Sign-Regent is Capricorn: the Noon-Shadows are Heteroscian.
1807 J. Montgomery W. Indies (1810) iv. 63 Where the noon shadow shrinks beneath the sun.
a1892 J. G. Whittier Hill-top in Poet. Wks. (1894) IV. 56 At last, our short noon-shadows hid The top-stone, bare and brown.
1999 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Sentinel (Nexis) 21 Dec. (Sports section) 12 Because the sun is overhead at its southernmost point, it means that noon shadows in the Northern Hemisphere are the longest of the year.
noon silence n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > [noun] > silence > time of > at evening or noon
noon silence1868
1868 J. G. Whittier in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 1 The locust by the wall Stabs the noon-silence with his sharp alarm.
1990 D. Davie Coll. Poems (new ed.) 295 Of feeling a balmy coolness, Of hearing a Sunday noon silence, Of smelling the six ragged lime-trees.
noon sky n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [noun] > noon
noon sky1671
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 156 Many are in each Region passing fair As the noon Skie . View more context for this quotation
1887 K. Tynan After Rain in May in Shamrocks 194 Speedwell bluer than noon-skies are.
1991 C. Jacox Kyle Bears Dancing in Northern Air 15 At the Missouri..a nighthawk tumbled Out of the brimming blue of the noon sky.
noon song n.
ΚΠ
OE tr. Theodulf of Orleans Capitula (Corpus Cambr.) xxxix. 389 Þæt is riht þætte æfter nonsange mon mæssan gehyre.
a1225 ( Rule St. Benet (Winteney) (1888) 51 Undernsang, middæȝsang, nonsang..si ȝesunge.
1877 Catholic World Aug. 690 Love's noon-song in its completeness, Poured in peaceful nature's ear From a thrush's throat of silver—happy song without one tear.
1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 25 Nov. c21 (heading) Noon Song.
noon-top n.
ΚΠ
1933 C. Day Lewis Magn. Mountain 9 Spirit mating afresh shall discern him On the world's noon-top purely poised.
b. Parasynthetic.
noon-bright adj.
ΚΠ
1827 R. Emmons Fredoniad II. xvii. 230 Nitrous smoke makes dark the noon-bright sky.
1998 W. N. Herbert Laurelude 123 Surely you could have simply strode..down to the noon-bright corral.
noon-clear adj.
ΚΠ
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. i. 5 In her noon-clear sense that she had never loved him she forgot for a moment [etc.].
noon-fierce adj.
ΚΠ
1954 W. Faulkner Fable (1955) 42 He would whisper the one word against the noon-fierce stone under his face.
noon-hot adj.
ΚΠ
1940 W. H. Auden Another Time 37 Every crevice of the noon-hot landscape.
noon maned adj.
ΚΠ
1946 D. Thomas Deaths & Entrances 17 I see the togron in tears In the androgynous dark, His striped and noon maned tribe striding to holocaust.
noon-slight adj.
ΚΠ
1936 L. B. Lyon Bright Feather Fading 16 He loved to shoulder A far cloud or brush the noon-Slight sickle moon.
† noon-wandering adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas xlvi, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 44 A noon-wandering meteor flung to Heaven.
noon-wide adj.
ΚΠ
1889 T. C. Irwin Fancies During Reading Rambles in Poems, Sketches, Songs 175 That Eminence, who reigns O'er all the peoples of the plains In noon-wide majesty alone.
1935 C. Day Lewis Time to Dance & Other Poems 25 Buoyed, embayed in heaven's noon-wide reaches.
noon-wild adj.
ΚΠ
1936 L. B. Lyon Bright Feather Fading 41 Battlement that once glowed Noon-wild is warier lit.
c.
noon-aglow adv.
ΚΠ
1919 W. De La Mare Flora 33 Her billowing summits heaving noon-aglow.
C2.
† noon-basket n. U.S. Obsolete a lunch basket.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > basket > picnic or packed lunch basket
prog-basket1835
picnic hamper1860
picnic basket1862
noon-basket1865
1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys vi. 71 Don't you remember what we used to say at school, when we opened our noon-baskets?
† noon devil n. [compare etymological note on devil meridian at meridian adj.] Obsolete = midday devil n. at midday n. Compounds 2; cf. meridian adj. 1a, noonday devil n. at noonday adj. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > [noun] > active at noon
midday fienda1425
midday devila1500
midday spritea1529
noon devil1560
noonday devil1651
noon-sprite1892
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxxv The Scripture warneth vs, to beware of the noone Deuill, and the fliynge Arrowe.
1621 J. Molle tr. P. Camerarius Liuing Libr. iv. ii. 265 At this day the Russians feare and reuerence the noone deuil.
noon-hall n. [perhaps a spurious compound, based on a misreading of Pepys' cipher] now historical and rare the hall of Cardinal Wolsey's palace at York Place, so named from its orientation due south, towards the sun at midday.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > dining-room
parlourc1384
cenaclea1400
triclinec1440
dining room?1576
dining hall1598
eating-room1613
triclinium1646
supper rooma1661
coffee-room1712
breakfast-room1732
salle-à-manger1762
mess-room1774
refreshment room1785
breakfast-parlour1802
noon-hall1828
dinner room1853
Speisesaal1871
diner1907
dinette1920
breakfast-nook1931
brunch bar1940
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > dining room
cenaclea1400
triclinec1440
parlour1526
dining room?1576
dining hall1598
eating-room1613
triclinium1646
supper rooma1661
coffee-room1712
salle-à-manger1762
mess-room1774
sala1774
noon-hall1828
dinner room1853
Speisesaal1871
diner1907
dinette1920
1828 in J. Smith Mem. S. Pepys (ed. 2) II. 264 [20 Apr. 1665] This night I am told the first play is played in White Hall noon-hall [1972 reading of cipher Whitehall-hall], which is now turned to a house of playing.
1954 L. Hotson First Night of Twelfth Night vi. 139 In this Noon-hall, on the meridian, as the players face the Queen at the South.., the way across the acting-space is due West.
noon halt n. now rare a halt made in the middle of the day.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > break in a journey
resting?a1425
arresta1500
bait1580
alto1591
halt1598
station1604
stop1650
stoppage1840
noon halt1843
stop-off1869
lay-over1873
stop-over1881
water stop1896
overnight1936
1843 J. C. Frémont Rep. Explor. Rocky Mts. 15 At our noon halt, the men were exercised at a target.
1927 Amer. Mercury May 108/1 There was a noon-halt for another meal and a second halt for the night meal.
1997 Salt Lake Tribune (Nexis) 8 June a2 I had the ill luck to break a wagon tire, but Burr Frost..welded it during the noon halt.
noon-hour n. U.S. an hour for rest or refreshment in the middle of the day; a lunch hour.
ΚΠ
1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked 165 They make..consignations at the noon-hour of every day, where every planet will bee.
1851 Harper's Mag. Apr. 661/1 He played heartily with the little one, and as if he enjoyed it, every day at the noon hour.
1995 Home & School (Canada) Apr. 50/2 Nutritionists urge parents to pay more attention to the fat-laden fare teenagers fill up on at lunch, especially when the noon-hour meal is so often topped off by a fast food supper.
noon-house n. U.S. (now historical and rare) a building attached to a meeting house, used for eating and resting between church services.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house used for other specific purpose
mourning house1535
pleasure house1590
meeting house1656
molly-house1728
noon-house1845
maneaba1944
1845 S. Judd Margaret i. xiv. 110 Several elderly men and women went to what was called a ‘Noon House’, a small building..where they ate dinner and had a prayer.
1891 A. M. Earle Sabbath in Puritan New Eng. 102 The ‘noon-house’, or ‘Sabba-day house’..was a place of refuge in the winter time, at the noon interval between two services.
1931 A. Train Puritan's Progress vii. 122 Out of the ‘noon-house’, where in many places it was customary to read additional sermons between the services, developed the modern Sunday school.
noon-line n. the line marking the hour of noon on a sundial.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > sundial > parts of
pinOE
gnomon1546
style1577
cock1585
hour-line1593
substyle1593
index1594
noon-line1596
incliner1638
substylara1652
substylar linea1652
staff1669
nodus1678
node1704
stylus1796
noon-mark1842
sun line1877
1596 J. Blagrave Astrolabium Vranicum sig. E3 The noone-line brought to the sunnes chief Apex.
1685 J. Twysden Anal. To Rdr. sig. A2 Mr. Blagrave in his Mathematical Jewel finds fault, that the Meridians towards the Noon-Line are very narrow and close together.
1882 R. Jefferies Bevis III. i. 8 He thought he could make the divisions for the rest of the hours. The moonlight cast a shadow to the east of the noon-line, as she had crossed the meridian.
1999 Clocks Dec. 31/2 It takes the form of a gilded analemma..superimposed on a plain vertical noon-line.
noon-mark n. now historical a mark, esp. on a window sill, etc., made at the point where the sun is at noon, used to reckon the time; (also) the time of noon, midday.
ΘΚΠ
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
the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > sundial > parts of
pinOE
gnomon1546
style1577
cock1585
hour-line1593
substyle1593
index1594
noon-line1596
incliner1638
substylara1652
substylar linea1652
staff1669
nodus1678
node1704
stylus1796
noon-mark1842
sun line1877
1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life II. xli. 164 The poor woman had removed her wheel and I my seat several times to avoid the encroachments of the sun, which now approached the noon-mark.
1889 R. T. Cooke Steadfast xxv. 275 Goodness! tis most noon-mark and I haven't took a step towardst dinner.
1982 S. B. Flexner Listening to Amer. 167 Most people..told time from sundials, simple sun marks or noonmarks on windows, windowsills, and doorsills.
noonscape n. (a) = noon-spell n.; (b) a description of a landscape at noon.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > specific
nooning1552
after-dinner1576
wheta1628
High Mail1676
High Mall1712
Sabbath-day1734
Blue Monday1790
noonscape1819
noon-spell1839
children's hour1853
smoke-ho1874
welting1964
1819 ‘P. Bobbin’ Sequel to Lancs. Dial. 25 In theau'll cum dewn sum noonscawp o' keawrink weh Seroh.
1885 ‘E. Douglas’ Bloody Heart in Queen of Hid Isle xxi. 126 He bade him bide That day at noon-scape hour by the weald-side His coming, tended by one only page, For he would bring six trusty knights.
1926 V. Sackville-West Land 71 Then, with the noonscape, underneath the hedge..the random reaper drains his pint of ale.
1984 Amer. Notes & Queries Sept.–Oct. 19/2 The sun in the Powderhead noonscape of Chapter I is a ‘furious white’.
noon-spell n. U.S. and English regional (now rare) a rest taken in the middle of the day.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > specific
nooning1552
after-dinner1576
wheta1628
High Mail1676
High Mall1712
Sabbath-day1734
Blue Monday1790
noonscape1819
noon-spell1839
children's hour1853
smoke-ho1874
welting1964
1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xlv. 300 Even the ‘noon~spell’ shines no holiday for the luckless subjects of her domination.
1908 R. W. Gilder Poems i. vi. 85 In the warm noon spell 'T was good to hear him tell Of the great September blow A dozen years ago.
† noon-sprite n. Obsolete rare a spirit which appears at noon; cf. noon devil n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > [noun] > active at noon
midday fienda1425
midday devila1500
midday spritea1529
noon devil1560
noonday devil1651
noon-sprite1892
1892 F. J. Child Ballads IV. 440/2 The Wends have the proverbial phrase, to ask as many questions as a noon-sprite.
† noon-tender n. Obsolete a dock worker who looks after goods while other workers take a lunch break.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > keeper or guardian > guardian of goods temporarily left on quay
noon-tender1684
1684 E. Chamberlayne 2nd Pt. Present State Eng. (ed. 12) ii. 245 Sixteen noon-tenders, who attend the goods on the keys whilst the other officers go to dinner.
1710 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 23) ii. iii. 494 Noon-tenders, at 16l. each per Ann.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

noonv.

Brit. /nuːn/, U.S. /nun/
Forms: see noon n.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: noon n.
Etymology: < noon n. Compare Dutch (rare) noenen to nap at midday, to eat at midday, German regional (south-western) nonen to rest at midday, Norwegian (Nynorsk) none, (archaic) nöna to eat at 3 p.m.
Chiefly U.S. regional.
intransitive. To halt or rest in the middle of the day; to stop for, or eat, a midday meal. Also with up. In early use also transitive (with it).
ΚΠ
1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? 59 His usuall Course was to have foure Meales a day: and every day to noone it with his wife.
1806 M. Lewis Jrnl. 30 June in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1993) VIII. 65 We arrived..where we had nooned it on the 12th of Septr. last.
1850 B. Taylor Eldorado xix. 135 We nooned at Sanchez' Ranche.
1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur vii. v. 459 The third day of the journey the party nooned by the river Jabbok.
1919 E. N. Wilson White Indian Boy 212 One day we were nooning on the big Sandy.
1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling xvii. 196 The birds were still..they were nooning and dusting themselves.
1986 T. McGuane To skin Cat (1989) 158 We..headed for a hillside spring..where we nooned up with the dogs.
2002 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 19 May A storm threatened as we nooned up at the Blue Hills reservoir a few days later.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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