Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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Synonyms: midday, noontide, 12 o'clock, 12 noon, 12 p.m., high noon, meridian, meridiem, nones, noon, noonday, noontime, noon-time, sext, twelve, undern, undermeal, undertide
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noun
The service appointed for this hour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
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noun
A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
An organ stop of two ranks of pipes an interval of a sixth apart.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
An electronic message, especially one sent by cell phone, involving sexual language or images.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To send a sext.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
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noun
the fourth of the seven canonical hours; about noon
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: canonical hour
History
From Latin sexta (“sixth; sixth hour”). Doublet of siesta.
Blend of sex + text. As a verb, a back-formation from earlier sexting, formed from the noun.
Across languages
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
