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/nuːn/ · noun
The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon..
On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
The race is due to start at noon sharp.
The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
The fire was put out by around 8:10 a.m. by the Rockdale County Fire Rescue. But around noon, another fire erupted, according to the CSB.
So the sad mother at the noon of night / From bloody Memphis stole her silent flight […].
When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents […].
In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.
We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning, the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake.
Use noon when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Noon means The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon..
Common synonyms include nones, midday, noontide, twelve.
Possible antonyms include midnight.
On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
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