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单词 noontide
释义

noon /noon/

noun
  1. The ninth hour of the day in Roman and ecclesiastical reckoning, 3pm
  2. Afterwards (when the church service called Nones was shifted to midday) midday
  3. Middle
  4. Greatest height, the culminating point
adjective
  1. Belonging to, or characteristic or typical of, midday
  2. Meridional
intransitive verb

To rest at noon

ORIGIN: OE nōn, from L nōna (hōra) the ninth (hour)

noonˈer noun (US informal)

  1. An activity undertaken during the lunch break
  2. A brief, esp illicit, sexual encounter during the lunch break

noonˈing noun (esp US dialect)

  1. (an interval for) a meal or rest about noon
  2. Midday

noonˈday noun

  1. Midday
  2. The time of greatest prosperity (figurative)

adjective

  1. Relating to midday
  2. Meridional

noonˈtide or noonˈtime noun (literary)

The time of noon, midday

adjective

  1. Relating to noon
  2. Meridional

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