noon

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

Etymology 1

From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English nōn (“the ninth hour”), from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin nōna (“ninth hour”) (short for nōna hōra), feminine of nōnus (“ninth”). Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.

Noun

noon (countable and uncountable, plural noons)

1. The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
   1. The mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks.
2. (now rare) The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
3. (obsolete) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
4. (figurative) The highest point; culmination.

Synonyms

• (ninth hour of daylight): nones
• (midpoint of the day): midday, nones, noontide, twelve; see also Thesaurus:midday
• (midnight): noon of night; see also Thesaurus:midnight
• (highest point): capstone; see also Thesaurus:apex

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “middle of the night”): midnight

Derived terms

Translations

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Verb

noon (third-person singular simple present noons, present participle nooning, simple past and past participle nooned)

1. (intransitive) To relax or sleep around midday.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:sleep

Etymology 2

Noun

noon (plural noons)

1. The letter ن in the Arabic script.

Anagrams

• no no, no-no, nono

Arapaho

Noun

noon

1. egg

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish innonn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuːn/

Adverb

noon

1. thither (over to the other side)

Antonyms

• noal

See also

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English nān, from ne + ān.

Adverb

noon (not comparable)

1. no; not

Determiner

noon

1. no (not any)
   • 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue

Descendants

• English: none
• Scots: nane

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /noˈʔon/ [n̪oˈʔon̪], (colloquial) /ˈnon/ [ˈn̪on̪]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: no‧on, noon

Adverb

noón (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜓᜂᜈ᜔)

1. when

   noong mag-aaral na sila ― when they were about to study

2. indicates past time

   noong Lunes ― last Monday

Derived terms

Pronoun

noón (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜓᜂᜈ᜔)

1. of that; that over there; yonder (far from both the speaker and the listener)

   Synonym: niyon

Alternative forms

• non, nun — colloquial

See also

Further reading

• “noon”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “noon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018