midnoon

American  

[mid-noon] / ˈmɪdˈnun /

noun

1. midday.

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Etymology

Origin of midnoon

First recorded in 1570–80; mid- + noon

Example Sentences

Not to be overwhelmed and overawed, much more convinced, by such a prodigious spectacle of evidence, is to gaze at midnoon into the heavens and cry out, "Where is the sun?"

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin

Along the road, where it runs beneath a steep, there are high ridges, covered with trees,—the dew of midnight damping the earth, far towards midnoon.

From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Yet he smiled as he blinked into the midnoon heat, under his shaggy brows, from his den beneath the great rock of limestone that shadowed him.

From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

It is as if, in the midnoon of a god-given day of golden spring, they should hug a black umbrella down about their heads and cry aloud, "Behold, there is no sun!"

From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker

No light gleamed out of that window of sinister repute, high up in the cliff-like wall, from which strange shapes were reported to look forth even at deep midnoon.

From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank