name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
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.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
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Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
The highest point; culmination.
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Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
The letter ن in the Arabic script.
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noun
An ethnic people who occupy western Senegal.
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noun
The language of these people.
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Usage: uncountable
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verb
To relax or sleep around midday.
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Usage: intransitive
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noun
the middle of the day
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: twelve noon, high noon, midday, noonday, noontide
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Broader terms: hour, time of day
History
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.
Across languages
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