noontime

Oznaczający (Angielski)

1. Noon.
2. Approximately noon.
3. 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).

Synonimy

noon

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midday

noonday

noontide

meridian

high noon

noon-time

meridional

midnight

noone

twelve o’clock

Etymologia (Angielski)

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”).