Noontide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Noontide is a noun meaning (literary) Midday, noon.
Meaning
(literary) Midday, noon.
More Meanings
- (figuratively) Climax; high point.
Example Sentences
[…] I haue bedymn'd / The Noone tide Sun, call'd forth the mutenous windes, / And twixt the greene Sea, and the azur'd vault / Set roaring warre: […]
The favorite noontide mess of the Andalusian peasantry; consisting of cucumbers shred fine, bread-crumbs, oil, vinegar, and water fresh from the spring.
Around them all, Negroes carried gunboats of mashed potatoes, spinach, shrimp, zucchini, pot roast, to the long, glittering steam tables, preparing to feed a noontide invasion of Yoyodyne workers.
Yet there are noble passages in his later poems: and even the latest have their own peculiar charm of serenity and kindliness,—a tranquil sunset, as it were, succeeding not unmeetly to the fiery splendours of his noontide course.
Word Forms
- noontides
Synonyms for noontide
Depending on context, synonyms include meridian, nones, sext, meridiem, midday, noon.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include midday, noon, noonday, sultriness, noon-time, undern.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.