Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The time of noon; midday.
- noun The time of culmination; the greatest height or depth: as, the noontide of prosperity.
- noun Same as
noon-flower . - Pertaining to noon; meridional.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The time of noon; midday.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
midday ,noon - adjective
midday
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the middle of the day
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Examples
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The noontide is upon us and our half waking has turned to fuller day, and we must part.
To Breakthrough... jen 2008
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The noontide is upon us and our half waking has turned to fuller day, and we must part.
Archive 2008-07-01 jen 2008
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Another great peril of our noontide is a narrowing of the sympathies.
Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers 1817-1893 1913
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I think that one of the first perils of the noontide is the eclipse of the spiritual relations of life.
Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers 1817-1893 1913
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But a little after the noontide is the Niblung host embayed,
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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Ye might go out to the paddock near noontide, though, lass, if ye've a mind to.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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All the children march in a parade with the town band to a noontide family service at church.
The Ordinary Day 2008
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By first light, she had served breakfast to her father, brother, and one-legged uncle and was already washing the curds that would be the principal dish at the noontide meal.
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This small dark coffee-house, now burnt down, was the resort of such writers and clerks belonging to the Parliament House above thirty years ago as retained the ancient Scottish custom of a meridian, as it was called, or noontide dram of spirits.
Redgauntlet 2008
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This was so much his wont that, when he made apologies at setting off for being obliged to stop in some strange, solitary place till the horses should eat the corn which he brought on with them for that purpose, our imagination used to be on the stretch to guess what romantic retreat he had secretly fixed upon for our noontide baiting-place.
bilby commented on the word noontide
What do thy noontide walks avail,
To clear the leaf, and pick the snail,
Then wantonly to death decree
An insect usefuller than thee?
Thou and the worm are brother-kind,
As low, as earthy, and as blind.
- G. Sewell, 'The Dying Man in His Garden'.
September 17, 2008