noon

== 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) The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon. The mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks. (now rare) The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight. (obsolete) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon. (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 day”): midnight ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== ==== Verb ==== noon (third-person singular simple present noons, present participle nooning, simple past and past participle nooned) (intransitive) To relax or sleep around midday. ===== Synonyms ===== See Thesaurus:sleep === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== noon (plural noons) The letter ن in the Arabic script. === Anagrams === no no, no-no, nono == Arapaho == === Noun === noon egg == Manx == === Etymology === From Old Irish innonn. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /nuːn/ === Adverb === noon thither (over to the other side) ==== Antonyms ==== noal ==== See also ==== == Middle English == === Etymology === From Old English nān, from ne + ān. === Adverb === noon (not comparable) no; not === Determiner === noon 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) when noong mag-aaral na sila ― when they were about to study indicates past time noong Lunes ― last Monday ==== Derived terms ==== === Pronoun === noón (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜓᜂᜈ᜔) 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, 2025 “noon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018