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单词 noondays
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noondaysn.

Forms: see noon n. and day n. and -s suffix1.
Origin: Perhaps formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: noon n., day n.
Etymology: Perhaps < noon n. + genitive of day n. Compare:?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1140 Abuton non tid dæies.a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 81 Or noyn of the day.
Obsolete.
1. about noondays: about the middle of the day, around noon. rare.
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1478 R. Cely Let. 26 Mar. (1975) 18 The xxij day of Marche I saw iij as greyt harttys..as euer I sau in my lyue, abowte none dayes, and the same day at euyn I hard a fesaunte koce crow.
a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 51 (MED) Thay went ham out of þe Cite Softely about noon dayes.
2. at noondays: in the middle of the day, at noon.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > noon or midday > [adverb]
a-noonc1410
at noondays1531
at (the) noonday1535
noontimes1915
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xiv. sig. Gvi They no lasse be astonied, than of commyng out of a darke house at noone dayes, they were sodaynly striken in the eyen with a bright sonne beame.
1537 tr. H. Latimer Serm. to Clergie sig. A.viiv They are to be lyghted with waxe candelles,..yea at noone dayes.
1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 66 Is it not cleerer than the sun at noondayes.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Midi He that looks for night at noone-dayes may well be tearmed mad, or blind.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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