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NOONDAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does noonday mean?
• NOONDAY (noun)
The noun NOONDAY has 1 sense:
1. the middle of the day
Familiarity information: NOONDAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The middle of the day
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
high noon; midday; noon; noonday; noontide; twelve noon
Hypernyms ("noonday" is a kind of...):
hour; time of day (clock time)
Holonyms ("noonday" is a part of...):
24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)
Context examples
“The thing is as clear as noonday,” cried the squire.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He had rather imagined that the denoument would take place in the chateau garden by moonlight, and in the most graceful and decorous manner, but it turned out exactly the reverse, for the matter was settled on the lake at noonday in a few blunt words.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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