Definition of "high noon" [high noon]

• Exactly noon. (noun)
• The highest or most advanced stage or period: the high noon of her creativity. (noun)

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• "Sarindar has a twenty-eight-hour day—the windows are at high noon and midnight, and they only last from thirteen to twenty-two minutes."
• "Under the sun or the stars, at high noon or at midnight, in midwinter or in midsummer, it does not matter when, it is always the same temperature -- not too warm, not too cold, just right."
• "Learn to jog five miles a day along the Potomac, even at sun-death high noon during 90 percent humidity."