The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
So the sad mother at the noon of night / From bloody Memphis stole her silent flight […].
The letter ن in the Arabic script.
To relax or sleep around midday.
We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning, the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake.
A surname.
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”). Cogna...
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