Definition of "noon" []

• Twelve o'clock in the daytime; midday. (noun)
• The time or point in the sun's path at which the sun is on the local meridian. Also called noontide, noontime. (noun)
• The highest point; the zenith. (noun)
• Archaic Midnight. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• ""_At Forty-three_" which he calls the noon hour of life -- "_man must live what he believes or he will eventually believe as he lives_.""
• "The troop halted for what they called their noon meat at the abode of a hospitable Yorkshire knight; but King Henry, in order that the good gentleman's means should not be overtasked, had given directions that only the ladies and the princes should enter the house, while the rest of the suite should take their meal at the village inn."
• "I think the young kid who catches a 7-pound largemouth off the family dock at high noon is probably just lucky."