noonnoun [ U ]
uk/nuːn/us/nuːn/A2 twelve o'clock in the middle of the day, or about that time:
We used to ski before noon and then have a long lunch.
By noon, we had had ten phone calls.
More examples
- Hotel guests are requested to vacate their rooms by twelve noon.
- There's a notice outside the building which says 'No admission before 12 noon'.
- The swimming pool doesn't get busy until noon.
- I finish work at noon on Saturday, so we could go for a coffee then.
- The train gets in just before noon.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Days & times of day
- afternoon
- afternoons
- am
- at the crack of dawn idiom
- bedtime
- circadian
- crepuscular
- in the dead of night/winter idiom
- last orders
- lighting-up time
- local time
- lunch hour
- office hours
- opening time
- overnight
- playtime
- pm
- rush hour
- twilit
- watershed
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