noontide

American  

[noon-tahyd] / ˈnunˌtaɪd /

noun

1. the time of noon; midday.

2. the highest or best point or part.

   the noontide of one's theatrical career.

3. Literary, Archaic. midnight.

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Etymology

Origin of noontide

before 1000; Middle English nonetyde, Old English nōntīd. See noon, tide ¹

Example Sentences

The original manuscript title of this ode was "Noontide."

From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Carruthers, Robert

Noontide was as dark as twilight, twilight was as dark as night, and when night fell it was as black as the night of Yomi, where lost souls wander and cry.

From Japanese Fairy Tales by James, Grace

XX All in the Trosachs' glen was still, Noontide was sleeping on the hill: Sudden his guide whooped loud and high— 'Murdoch! was that a signal cry?'—

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir

Mithras, God of the Noontide, the heather swims in the heat.

From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard

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