1
[ noun ] the middle of the day

Used in print

(J. F. Vedder, "Micrometeorites", in Francis S. J...)

Ninety per_cent of the 153 recorded impacts occurred between midnight and noon , and from day to day the variation of the rate was as much as an order_of_magnitude .

(Jane Gilmore Rushing, "Against the Moon,"...)

The older men would be there at noon , and maybe rest for a time before they took their guns off to the creek or drove down the road towards town .

(Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)

They had the house cleaned_up by noon , and Wilson sent the boy out to the meadow to bring in the horses .

(Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)

To them he could have been the broken bell in the church_tower which rang before and after Mass , and at noon , and at six each evening - its tone , repetitive , monotonous , never breaking the boredom of the streets .

Related terms

hour day

2
[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 9792
*