noondayn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈnuːndeɪ/, U.S.

/ˈnunˌdeɪ/

Forms: see noon n. and day n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: noon n., day n.

Etymology: < noon n. + day n. Compare earlier midday n. and noondays n.Compare Old Norwegian nóndagr (13th cent. in nóndagstími).

A. n.

a. The middle of the day; midday. Also figurative.

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

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. iv. 5 He laye vpon his bed at the noone daie.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xxxvii. 63 The glory of noone day.

a1668 W. D'Avenant Poems Several Occasions in Wks. (1673) 377 We see at once in dead of night A Sun appear, and yet a bright Noonday, springing from Star-light.

1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 47 It's Noon-day with them, and they look no farther.

1742 Gentleman's Mag. June 296/1 With greater Warmth than in the Noon-Day of his Preferment.

1805 J. Mackintosh Let. 1 June in R. J. Mackintosh Life I. v. 250 The German philosophy, under its present leader Shelling, has reached a degree of darkness, in comparison of with Kant was noonday.

1822 Ld. Byron Heaven & Earth i. iii, in Liberal 1 206 The pleasant trees that o'er our noonday bent.

1845 G. L. Craik Sketches Hist. Lit. & Learning Eng. IV. 5 Our National Literature..had its noonday in..the last quarter of the sixteenth and the first of the seventeenth century.

1901 E. A. Akers Ballad of Bronx 11 Even noonday is cool and dark.

1985 J. Morris Last Lett. from Hav vi. 53 It sprouts mushroom-like overnight, without warning, and by noonday it is gone.

b. at (†the) noonday: in the middle of the day. Cf. noondays n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > noon or midday > [adverb]

a-noonc1410

at noondays1531

at (the) noonday1535

noontimes1915

1535 [see sense A. 1a].

1651 H. L'Estrange Answer Marques of Worcester's Paper 12 [That] we must not walk abroad at high noon-day without a Torch.

1747 B. Hoadly Suspicious Husband iv. i. 47 What the devil, swords at noonday?

1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 451 Judgment drunk,..Winks hard, and talks of darkness at noon-day.

1850 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (1853) 141 Prisons in..which he could not see his hand at noonday.

1883 G. H. Boker Plays & Poems I. iii. i. 281 If plain, blunt sense could compass my designs, I'd go to bed at noonday.

1942 National Geographic Mag. June 771/1 Gigantic mangoes casting a shade so dense that there is darkness at noonday under their low-hanging branches.

1991 H. Davies Shanghai Owner of Bonsai Shop 23 We hide in the treetrunks at noonday.

2. clear as (the sun at) noonday and variants: transparent, self-evident.

ΚΠ

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xi. 17 Then shulde thy life be as cleare as the noone daye.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 317 As may be seine ouer all cleirer than the sone at Nune day.

1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 53 It is as clear as the Noon-day, that this was not the House of Commons.

a1704 T. Brown Lett. from Dead (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) II. ii. 234 My Minor is as plain as the Sun at Noon-day.

1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. iv. 31 That he was not a thief was as clear to her as the sun at noonday.

1893 W. Forbes-Mitchell Reminisc. Great Mutiny 26 It was clear as noonday to the meanest capacity.

1956 C. S. Lewis Till we have Faces xii. 146 My other guesses would not even come into their minds; here was the plain answer, clear as noonday. Why seek further?

1992 Polit. Theory 20 443 It is clear as noonday that politics stands in the service of heteronomous, nonpolitical powers.

B. adj. (attributive).

1. noonday devil n. (also noonday demon) = midday devil n. at midday n. Compounds 2. Cf. meridian adj. 1a and noon devil n. at noon n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > [noun] > active at noon

midday fienda1425

midday devila1500

midday spritea1529

noon devil1560

noonday devil1651

noon-sprite1892

1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. xxvii. 350 At this day some of the Russians fear the Noon-day Devil.

1750 Bible (Challoner) Psalms xc. 6 Thou shalt not be afraid..of invasion, or of the noonday devil.

1861 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) July 704 It was called the prayer for protection against the noon-day devil..and both in spirt [sic] and in substance was one which we could wish our commercial Christendom might learn to repeat.

1884 A. T. de Vere Poet. Wks. II. 51 By woman's breast, and the head of man, By Night and the noonday Demon he swore He would claim the Boarian Tribute no more.

1963 Listener 17 Jan. 129/3 He would have placed us still further in his debt if he had told us how the ‘noonday devil’ of Psalm 90 acquired a sexual connotation.

1987 D. Rowe Beyond Fear viii. 287 Since this would often happen when the sun was high in the sky, accidie was explained by the Noonday Demon.

2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle of the day. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > noon or midday > [adjective]

meridianc1400

meridialc1540

noontide1595

meridional1608

noondaya1651

full tide1702

midnoon1805

a1651 N. Culverwell Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) 151 The first dawnings of certainty are in the sense, the noon-day-glory of it is in the Intellectuals.

1674 W. Lloyd Difference Church & Court of Rome 5 In this Noon-day Light of Christian Knowledge.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 441. ¶11 My Noon-day Walks he shall attend.

1781 W. Cowper Charity 398 Di'monds..Reflect the noon-day glory of the skies.

1791 E. Burke Let. to Member National Assembly in Wks. (1823) VI. 20 The then noon-day splendour of the civilized world.

1820 P. B. Shelley Cloud in Prometheus Unbound 196 I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams.

1841 E. Rigby Resid. Shores Baltic I. i. 18 The searching rays of the noon-day sun drew forth grotesque masses of light and shade.

1873 ‘Ouida’ Pascarèl I. 69 They would run out..to fetch me a noonday meal of coffee..and little patties.

1936 A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza liii. 601 The sofas where the Geheimrats slept off the effects of noonday eating.

1958 Times 20 Sept. 9/6 A fresh salty breeze which tempers the noonday heat.

1997 Chicago Tribune 17 Aug. vii. 11/1 Actors working overtime to pretend they're not slabs of butter left out under the noonday sun.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	noonday
释义	noondayn.adj. Brit. /ˈnuːndeɪ/, U.S. /ˈnunˌdeɪ/ Forms: see noon n. and day n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: noon n., day n. Etymology: < noon n. + day n. Compare earlier midday n. and noondays n.Compare Old Norwegian nóndagr (13th cent. in nóndagstími). A. n. 1. a. The middle of the day; midday. Also figurative. 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 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. iv. 5 He laye vpon his bed at the noone daie. a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xxxvii. 63 The glory of noone day. a1668 W. D'Avenant Poems Several Occasions in Wks. (1673) 377 We see at once in dead of night A Sun appear, and yet a bright Noonday, springing from Star-light. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 47 It's Noon-day with them, and they look no farther. 1742 Gentleman's Mag. June 296/1 With greater Warmth than in the Noon-Day of his Preferment. 1805 J. Mackintosh Let. 1 June in R. J. Mackintosh Life I. v. 250 The German philosophy, under its present leader Shelling, has reached a degree of darkness, in comparison of with Kant was noonday. 1822 Ld. Byron Heaven & Earth i. iii, in Liberal 1 206 The pleasant trees that o'er our noonday bent. 1845 G. L. Craik Sketches Hist. Lit. & Learning Eng. IV. 5 Our National Literature..had its noonday in..the last quarter of the sixteenth and the first of the seventeenth century. 1901 E. A. Akers Ballad of Bronx 11 Even noonday is cool and dark. 1985 J. Morris Last Lett. from Hav vi. 53 It sprouts mushroom-like overnight, without warning, and by noonday it is gone. b. at (†the) noonday: in the middle of the day. Cf. noondays n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > noon or midday > [adverb] a-noonc1410 at noondays1531 at (the) noonday1535 noontimes1915 1535 [see sense A. 1a]. 1651 H. L'Estrange Answer Marques of Worcester's Paper 12 [That] we must not walk abroad at high noon-day without a Torch. 1747 B. Hoadly Suspicious Husband iv. i. 47 What the devil, swords at noonday? 1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 451 Judgment drunk,..Winks hard, and talks of darkness at noon-day. 1850 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (1853) 141 Prisons in..which he could not see his hand at noonday. 1883 G. H. Boker Plays & Poems I. iii. i. 281 If plain, blunt sense could compass my designs, I'd go to bed at noonday. 1942 National Geographic Mag. June 771/1 Gigantic mangoes casting a shade so dense that there is darkness at noonday under their low-hanging branches. 1991 H. Davies Shanghai Owner of Bonsai Shop 23 We hide in the treetrunks at noonday. 2. clear as (the sun at) noonday and variants: transparent, self-evident. ΚΠ 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xi. 17 Then shulde thy life be as cleare as the noone daye. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 317 As may be seine ouer all cleirer than the sone at Nune day. 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 53 It is as clear as the Noon-day, that this was not the House of Commons. a1704 T. Brown Lett. from Dead (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) II. ii. 234 My Minor is as plain as the Sun at Noon-day. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. iv. 31 That he was not a thief was as clear to her as the sun at noonday. 1893 W. Forbes-Mitchell Reminisc. Great Mutiny 26 It was clear as noonday to the meanest capacity. 1956 C. S. Lewis Till we have Faces xii. 146 My other guesses would not even come into their minds; here was the plain answer, clear as noonday. Why seek further? 1992 Polit. Theory 20 443 It is clear as noonday that politics stands in the service of heteronomous, nonpolitical powers. B. adj. (attributive). 1. noonday devil n. (also noonday demon) = midday devil n. at midday n. Compounds 2. Cf. meridian adj. 1a and noon devil n. at noon n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > [noun] > active at noon midday fienda1425 midday devila1500 midday spritea1529 noon devil1560 noonday devil1651 noon-sprite1892 1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. xxvii. 350 At this day some of the Russians fear the Noon-day Devil. 1750 Bible (Challoner) Psalms xc. 6 Thou shalt not be afraid..of invasion, or of the noonday devil. 1861 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) July 704 It was called the prayer for protection against the noon-day devil..and both in spirt [sic] and in substance was one which we could wish our commercial Christendom might learn to repeat. 1884 A. T. de Vere Poet. Wks. II. 51 By woman's breast, and the head of man, By Night and the noonday Demon he swore He would claim the Boarian Tribute no more. 1963 Listener 17 Jan. 129/3 He would have placed us still further in his debt if he had told us how the ‘noonday devil’ of Psalm 90 acquired a sexual connotation. 1987 D. Rowe Beyond Fear viii. 287 Since this would often happen when the sun was high in the sky, accidie was explained by the Noonday Demon. 2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle of the day. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > noon or midday > [adjective] meridianc1400 meridialc1540 noontide1595 meridional1608 noondaya1651 full tide1702 midnoon1805 a1651 N. Culverwell Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) 151 The first dawnings of certainty are in the sense, the noon-day-glory of it is in the Intellectuals. 1674 W. Lloyd Difference Church & Court of Rome 5 In this Noon-day Light of Christian Knowledge. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 441. ¶11 My Noon-day Walks he shall attend. 1781 W. Cowper Charity 398 Di'monds..Reflect the noon-day glory of the skies. 1791 E. Burke Let. to Member National Assembly in Wks. (1823) VI. 20 The then noon-day splendour of the civilized world. 1820 P. B. Shelley Cloud in Prometheus Unbound 196 I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. 1841 E. Rigby Resid. Shores Baltic I. i. 18 The searching rays of the noon-day sun drew forth grotesque masses of light and shade. 1873 ‘Ouida’ Pascarèl I. 69 They would run out..to fetch me a noonday meal of coffee..and little patties. 1936 A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza liii. 601 The sofas where the Geheimrats slept off the effects of noonday eating. 1958 Times 20 Sept. 9/6 A fresh salty breeze which tempers the noonday heat. 1997 Chicago Tribune 17 Aug. vii. 11/1 Actors working overtime to pretend they're not slabs of butter left out under the noonday sun. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1535
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