noontide
Americannoun
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the time of noon; midday.
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the highest or best point or part.
the noontide of one's theatrical career.
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Literary, Archaic. midnight.
Etymology
Origin of noontide
before 1000; Middle English nonetyde, Old English nōntīd. See noon, tide 1
Example Sentences
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Noontide came, and found the little band, of some score aged men, intent upon their midday meal.
From The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)
Mithras, God of the Noontide, the heather swims in the heat, Our helmets scorch our foreheads; our sandals burn our feet!
From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rackham, Arthur
The original manuscript title of this ode was "Noontide."
From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Carruthers, Robert
Noontide had passed away when our traveller found himself in the neighbourhood of his deceased uncle's habitation of Milnwood.
From Old Mortality, Volume 2. by Scott, Walter, Sir
Over the pool of sleep The night mists creep, Then faint thin light and then clear day, Noontide, and lingering afternoon; Then that Wanderer, the Moon Wandering her old wild way.
From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John
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