Definition/Meaning of noon

• English - Noun: noon (countable and uncountable, plural noons) (countable, uncountable) The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon . The race is due to start at noon sharp. On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon . (countable, uncountable) The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon .: The mean time of solar noon ,…
• English - Verb: noon (third-person singular simple present noons, present participle nooning, simple past and past participle nooned) (intransitive) To relax or sleep around midday . 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 157: They nooned at a spring and squatted about the cold and blackened sticks of some former fire and ate cold beans and tortillas out of a newspaper. 1889, Mark Twain, A…
• English - Anagrams: nono , no-no
• English - Etymology: 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.
• English - Pronunciation: (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /nuːn/ (General American) IPA: /nun/ (Northern Ireland, Scotland) IPA: /nʉn/ Rhymes: -uːn