- 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’.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See noon in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarymorning, 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.
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