noontide

[ noon-tahyd ]

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of noontide¹

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

Example Sentences

The doors are hung with heavy curtains to exclude the noontide heat, as is still common in Italian churches.

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It was a pity I could not do justice to the good things we turned out upon the grass when we made our noontide halts.

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The hot sun poured down its noontide rays, the dust arose in parching clouds, and followed with the wind their flagging footsteps.

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Reverses, sickness, death—they seem to follow some people as surely as the shadow follows the sun at noontide.

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As there was no dividing line between the morning and noontide, neither was there any between the afternoon and evening.

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