noon
noun /nuːn/
/nuːn/
[uncountable]Idioms - 12 o’clock in the middle of the day synonym midday
- We should be there by noon.
- The conference opens at 12 noon on Saturday.
- the noon deadline for the end of hostilities
- I'm leaving on the noon train.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- 12
- high
- around noon
- at noon
- by noon
- …
- morning, noon and night
Word OriginOld English nōn ‘the ninth hour from sunrise, i.e. approximately 3 p.m.’, from Latin nona (hora) ‘ninth hour’.
Idioms
morning, noon and night
- at all times of the day and night (used to emphasize that something happens very often or that it happens continuously)
- She talks about him morning, noon and night.
- The work continues morning, noon and night.
- It's all she talks about, morning, noon and night.