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noon noun [ nuːn ]

• twelve o'clock in the day; midday.
• "the service starts at twelve noon"
Similar: midday, twelve noon, twelve midday, twelve o'clock, high noon, noontime, noontide, noonday, twelve hundred, twelve hundred hours, one-two-double-O,
Opposite: midnight,
Origin: Old English nōn ‘the ninth hour from sunrise, i.e. approximately 3 p.m’, from Latin nona (hora ) ‘ninth hour’; compare with none2.


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