noontiden.adj.

Brit.

/ˈnuːntʌɪd/, U.S.

/ˈnunˌtaɪd/

Forms: see noon n. and tide n.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch noentijt , noentide (Dutch noentijd ), Middle High German nōnezīt , nōnzīt (German (obsolete) Nonezeit , Nonzeit ) midday, Old Icelandic nóntiðir (plural) the service at nones, Old Swedish nons tidh 3 p.m. < the Germanic base of noon n. + the Germanic base of tide n. Compare noontime n.Compare the following, showing either alteration after the genitive of noon n., or an independent formation < the genitive of noon n. + tide n.:?a1430 Compleynte Virgin (Huntington) l. 135 in Minor Poems T. Hoccleve (1970) i. 4 O sonne, with thy cleere bemes brighte, Þat seest my child nakid this nones tyde [v.r. non-is tyde].

A. n.

1. Originally: †the time of noon, reckoned as the ninth hour of the day (see noon n. 1) (obsolete). In later use: the middle of the day, midday.In quot. c1595 in figurative context.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > noon or midday > [noun]

noontideeOE

middayOE

overnoonOE

noontimeOE

noona1225

undern13..

high noon1370

undern-tide1387

meridianc1390

merionc1390

meridiec1392

midoverunderna1400

high dayc1425

noon season1461

nooninga1500

noonday1535

midnoon1580

mid-seasona1616

M1741

noon-mark1842

noon1852

sun-hot1894

eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xiv. 296 Forðon æfter þy þriddan dæge, gefylleddre nontide,..buton ænigre gefelnisse sares þone gast onsende & forðgeleorde.

OE Blickling Homilies 47 Þriddan siþe on midne dæg, feorþan siþe on nontid, fiftan siþe on æfen.

OE Homily (Corpus Cambr. 419) in B. Assmann Angelsächsische Homilien u. Heiligenleben (1889) 140 Sona swa hy þæt belltacen gehyrað þære nigoðan tide, þæt is seo nontid.

?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1140 Þer efter..þestrede þe sunne & te dæi, abuton non tid dæies, þa men eten.

c1330 Sir Orfeo (Auch.) (1966) 497 (MED) Amorwe, oȝain none-tide, He maked his wiif þer abide.

c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 142 (MED) Þe Childes moder was wont to a-byde Euery day til þe Non-tyde.

1457–8 in H. E. Salter Churchwardens' Accts. St. Michael's Oxf. (1933) 50 (MED) For drynk to the sayd mason at noyntyd, ob.

a1500 (a1400) Sir Eglamour (Cambr.) (1844) 364 (MED) Ageynys the none-tyde, Yn a foreste there he can ryde.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cii. 77 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 154 Turne not to night the noonetide of my day.

1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. x. 223 The Sunne at Noonetide is alwayes on the South of those which dwell vnder the Arcticke Circle.

1684 J. Dryden Epil. Calisto in Misc. Poems 328 Whose Morning Rays like Noontide strike and shine.

1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xlix. 25 Dark even at noontide is our mortal sphere.

1796–7 S. T. Coleridge Lines Autumnal Evening vi To shield my love from noontide's sultry beam.

1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile 625 in Poems I The noontide's hush and heat and shine.

1883 Cent. Mag. Apr. 877/1 The neophytes..find the manna of noontide somewhat rank and innutritious.

1931 L. Binyon Lyrical Poems 372 Could I..Soar eagle-winged amid the altitudes of noontide.

1990 P. Anderson in L. Niven et al. Man-Kzin Wars III i. 173 When Weoch-Captain came out at noontide, jaws still dripping red, he felt tranquil, happy, and..ready to conquer a cosmos.

†2. In extended use: the middle of the night; (also) the position of the moon at midnight. Cf. noon n. 4. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > day and night > night > [noun] > midnight

midnighteOE

middle nighteOE

noontide1568

noon1605

witching hour1762

long hour1807

midnight1813

midnight-tide1918

zero hour1939

the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > movement of moon > [noun] > position

Part of Fortune1579

noon?1606

noontide1823

1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) 66 Sum monebrunt madynis myld, At nonetyd of the nicht.

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII lxiii. 86 The noontide of the Moon.

1847 T. De Quincey Secret Societies in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 516/1 Meeting in secret chambers, at the noontide of night.

3. figurative. The culminating or highest point of something. Cf. noon n. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > state of or advanced condition > highest point

prickOE

heighta1050

full1340

higha1398

pointc1400

roofa1500

top-castle1548

ruff1549

acmea1568

tip1567

noontide1578

high tide1579

superlative1583

summity1588

spring tide1593

meridian1594

period1595

apogee1600

punctilio1601

high-water mark1602

noon1609

zenith1610

auge1611

apex1624

culmination1633

cumble1640

culmen1646

climax1647

topc1650

cumulus1659

summit1661

perigeum1670

highest1688

consummation1698

stretch1741

high point1787

perihelion1804

summary1831

comble1832

heading up1857

climacteric1870

flashpoint1878

tip-end1885

peak1902

noontime1903

Omega point1981

1578 Bk. Christian Prayers in Private Prayers (1851) 506 O noontide of fervent love.

1649 T. Forde Lusus Fortunæ 78 Whose eyes, in the noone-tide of the Gospell, are wandring about in every corner.

1790 M. O. Warren Sack of Rome iv. i. 56 That life of innocence and ease Which bless'd the noontide of my happier days.

1823 C. Lamb in London Mag. May 533/1 A Poor Relation is—..a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of your prosperity.

1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd i. 2 His dawning of fair promise, and his noontide of the strife.

1914 W. S. Blunt Poet. Wks. 142 This is thy day of deceit, the noontide of thy cunning.

2002 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 24 Feb. f4 Many works written for glass at the noontide of its popularity are not that distinguished.

†4. = noon-flower n. 2. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > goat's beard

goat's beardc1400

bucks-beard1551

Joseph's flower1578

Tragopogon1578

noontide1597

John-go-to-bed-at-noon1759

sleep-at-noon1779

nap-at-noon1828

jack-go-to-bed-at-noon1847

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 596 Goates bearde is called..in English..Noone tide, and Go to bed at noone.

1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 413 Tragopogon..in English Goates beard..or Noone tide.

1864 R. C. A. Prior Pop. Names Brit. Plants Noon-flower, or Noon-tide, from its closing at midday, and marking the hour of noon.

B. adj. (attributive).

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle of the day.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > noon or midday > [adjective]

meridianc1400

meridialc1540

noontide1595

meridional1608

noondaya1651

full tide1702

midnoon1805

1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 i. iv. 35 Now Phaeton hath..made an euening at the noone tide pricke.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 42 By whose ayde..I haue bedymn'd The Noone-tide Sun.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 309 Still as Night Or Summers Noon-tide air.

1721 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics (ed. 5) I. iii. 280 Mossy Caverns for their Noontide Lare.

1781 W. Cowper Truth 540 The splendour of a noon-tide ray.

1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves viii Some reapers lay down in the field to take their noontide sleep.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxv. 45 Roads, garden-paths, the house fronts, the barton walls were warm as hearths, and reflected the noontide temperature into the noctambulist's face.

1918 ‘R. West’ Return of Soldier iv. 104 Without explanation he had discontinued his noontide habit of ringing up his wife.

2001 Guardian 3 Apr. ii. 20/1 The sun's vertical noontide height..is some 9 minutes behind the equivalent at Greenwich.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	noontide
释义	noontiden.adj. Brit. /ˈnuːntʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈnunˌtaɪd/ Forms: see noon n. and tide n. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch noentijt , noentide (Dutch noentijd ), Middle High German nōnezīt , nōnzīt (German (obsolete) Nonezeit , Nonzeit ) midday, Old Icelandic nóntiðir (plural) the service at nones, Old Swedish nons tidh 3 p.m. < the Germanic base of noon n. + the Germanic base of tide n. Compare noontime n.Compare the following, showing either alteration after the genitive of noon n., or an independent formation < the genitive of noon n. + tide n.:?a1430 Compleynte Virgin (Huntington) l. 135 in Minor Poems T. Hoccleve (1970) i. 4 O sonne, with thy cleere bemes brighte, Þat seest my child nakid this nones tyde [v.r. non-is tyde]. A. n. 1. Originally: †the time of noon, reckoned as the ninth hour of the day (see noon n. 1) (obsolete). In later use: the middle of the day, midday.In quot. c1595 in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > noon or midday > [noun] noontideeOE middayOE overnoonOE noontimeOE noona1225 undern13.. high noon1370 undern-tide1387 meridianc1390 merionc1390 meridiec1392 midoverunderna1400 high dayc1425 noon season1461 nooninga1500 noonday1535 midnoon1580 mid-seasona1616 M1741 noon-mark1842 noon1852 sun-hot1894 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xiv. 296 Forðon æfter þy þriddan dæge, gefylleddre nontide,..buton ænigre gefelnisse sares þone gast onsende & forðgeleorde. OE Blickling Homilies 47 Þriddan siþe on midne dæg, feorþan siþe on nontid, fiftan siþe on æfen. OE Homily (Corpus Cambr. 419) in B. Assmann Angelsächsische Homilien u. Heiligenleben (1889) 140 Sona swa hy þæt belltacen gehyrað þære nigoðan tide, þæt is seo nontid. ?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1140 Þer efter..þestrede þe sunne & te dæi, abuton non tid dæies, þa men eten. c1330 Sir Orfeo (Auch.) (1966) 497 (MED) Amorwe, oȝain none-tide, He maked his wiif þer abide. c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 142 (MED) Þe Childes moder was wont to a-byde Euery day til þe Non-tyde. 1457–8 in H. E. Salter Churchwardens' Accts. St. Michael's Oxf. (1933) 50 (MED) For drynk to the sayd mason at noyntyd, ob. a1500 (a1400) Sir Eglamour (Cambr.) (1844) 364 (MED) Ageynys the none-tyde, Yn a foreste there he can ryde. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cii. 77 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 154 Turne not to night the noonetide of my day. 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. x. 223 The Sunne at Noonetide is alwayes on the South of those which dwell vnder the Arcticke Circle. 1684 J. Dryden Epil. Calisto in Misc. Poems 328 Whose Morning Rays like Noontide strike and shine. 1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xlix. 25 Dark even at noontide is our mortal sphere. 1796–7 S. T. Coleridge Lines Autumnal Evening vi To shield my love from noontide's sultry beam. 1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile 625 in Poems I The noontide's hush and heat and shine. 1883 Cent. Mag. Apr. 877/1 The neophytes..find the manna of noontide somewhat rank and innutritious. 1931 L. Binyon Lyrical Poems 372 Could I..Soar eagle-winged amid the altitudes of noontide. 1990 P. Anderson in L. Niven et al. Man-Kzin Wars III i. 173 When Weoch-Captain came out at noontide, jaws still dripping red, he felt tranquil, happy, and..ready to conquer a cosmos. †2. In extended use: the middle of the night; (also) the position of the moon at midnight. Cf. noon n. 4. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > night > [noun] > midnight midnighteOE middle nighteOE noontide1568 noon1605 witching hour1762 long hour1807 midnight1813 midnight-tide1918 zero hour1939 the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > movement of moon > [noun] > position Part of Fortune1579 noon?1606 noontide1823 1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) 66 Sum monebrunt madynis myld, At nonetyd of the nicht. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII lxiii. 86 The noontide of the Moon. 1847 T. De Quincey Secret Societies in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 516/1 Meeting in secret chambers, at the noontide of night. 3. figurative. The culminating or highest point of something. Cf. noon n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > state of or advanced condition > highest point prickOE heighta1050 full1340 higha1398 pointc1400 roofa1500 top-castle1548 ruff1549 acmea1568 tip1567 noontide1578 high tide1579 superlative1583 summity1588 spring tide1593 meridian1594 period1595 apogee1600 punctilio1601 high-water mark1602 noon1609 zenith1610 auge1611 apex1624 culmination1633 cumble1640 culmen1646 climax1647 topc1650 cumulus1659 summit1661 perigeum1670 highest1688 consummation1698 stretch1741 high point1787 perihelion1804 summary1831 comble1832 heading up1857 climacteric1870 flashpoint1878 tip-end1885 peak1902 noontime1903 Omega point1981 1578 Bk. Christian Prayers in Private Prayers (1851) 506 O noontide of fervent love. 1649 T. Forde Lusus Fortunæ 78 Whose eyes, in the noone-tide of the Gospell, are wandring about in every corner. 1790 M. O. Warren Sack of Rome iv. i. 56 That life of innocence and ease Which bless'd the noontide of my happier days. 1823 C. Lamb in London Mag. May 533/1 A Poor Relation is—..a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of your prosperity. 1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd i. 2 His dawning of fair promise, and his noontide of the strife. 1914 W. S. Blunt Poet. Wks. 142 This is thy day of deceit, the noontide of thy cunning. 2002 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 24 Feb. f4 Many works written for glass at the noontide of its popularity are not that distinguished. †4. = noon-flower n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > goat's beard goat's beardc1400 bucks-beard1551 Joseph's flower1578 Tragopogon1578 noontide1597 John-go-to-bed-at-noon1759 sleep-at-noon1779 nap-at-noon1828 jack-go-to-bed-at-noon1847 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 596 Goates bearde is called..in English..Noone tide, and Go to bed at noone. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 413 Tragopogon..in English Goates beard..or Noone tide. 1864 R. C. A. Prior Pop. Names Brit. Plants Noon-flower, or Noon-tide, from its closing at midday, and marking the hour of noon. B. adj. (attributive). Of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle of the day. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > noon or midday > [adjective] meridianc1400 meridialc1540 noontide1595 meridional1608 noondaya1651 full tide1702 midnoon1805 1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 i. iv. 35 Now Phaeton hath..made an euening at the noone tide pricke. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 42 By whose ayde..I haue bedymn'd The Noone-tide Sun. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 309 Still as Night Or Summers Noon-tide air. View more context for this quotation 1721 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics (ed. 5) I. iii. 280 Mossy Caverns for their Noontide Lare. 1781 W. Cowper Truth 540 The splendour of a noon-tide ray. 1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves viii Some reapers lay down in the field to take their noontide sleep. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxv. 45 Roads, garden-paths, the house fronts, the barton walls were warm as hearths, and reflected the noontide temperature into the noctambulist's face. 1918 ‘R. West’ Return of Soldier iv. 104 Without explanation he had discontinued his noontide habit of ringing up his wife. 2001 Guardian 3 Apr. ii. 20/1 The sun's vertical noontide height..is some 9 minutes behind the equivalent at Greenwich. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.eOE
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