Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The time of noon; the time of day when the sun is highest in the sky, especially on a hot day.

  2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The time of greatest prosperity.

More definitions
  • the middle of the day

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The noonday sun beat down with dazzling brightness on the tennis court.

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  2. Without a word, he had disappeared into the welter of the noonday crowd.

    ruБез единого слова он растворился в хаосе полуденной толпы.

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  3. Why, old No-Eyes, do you bear a lantern, you whose midnight is no darker than his noonday?

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Origin

From noon + day.

From noon + day.

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Forms

plural: noondays
Singularnoonday
Pluralnoondays

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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