noontime

Betekenis (Engels)

1. Noon.
2. Approximately noon.
3. (figuratively) The time at which something peaks in some way (e.g., in vitality, in influence, in reknown) (by analogy with the waxing of the sun each day).

Sinonieme

noon

🕛

midday

noonday

noontide

meridian

high noon

noon-time

meridional

midnight

noone

twelve o’clock

Vertalings

mediodía

🕛

Mittag

🕛

middag

midi

🕛

meio-dia

🕛

noen

🕛

öğle vakti

μεσημέρι

mezzogiorno

mezzodÌ

miègjorn

meridies

mezzodì

migdia

Etimologie (Engels)

Verwante met Engels: noontide

Verwante met Middle English: noon tijd

Verwante met Old English: nōntīd

In summary

From noon + time, perhaps an innovation of earlier English noontide (“noontime”), from Middle English noon tijd, from Old English nōntīd (“noontime”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English merian, merion (“noontime”) from Old French meriiene, merīane (“noontime”).