noon

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

noon [noon noons] BrE [nuːn] NAmE [nuːn] noun uncountable
12 o'clock in the middle of the day
Syn: ↑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.
•the glaring light of high noon
see morning, noon and night at ↑morning

Word Origin:
Old English nōn ‘the ninth hour from sunrise, i.e. approximately 3 p.m.’, from Latin nona (hora) ‘ninth hour’.

Example Bank:
•the glaring light of high noon
•I'm leaving on the noon train.
•We arrived at high noon.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  twelve noon, high noon, midday, noonday, noontide