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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Though we speak of the noontide sun as "beating down" on our heads, it does nothing of the kind.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was best seen after dark when great batteries of floodlights poured a spurious noontide over the rising, mile-long ramparts of fresh concrete.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon they were stealing through the green, noontide depths of Mossflower Wood.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
North and further north they ran, while the pallid noontide came and went and the twilight wrapped itself again around the world.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
The calmness of this noontide hour, The shadow of this wood, The fragrance of each wilding flower Are marvelously good; O! here crazed spirits breathe the balm, Of nature's solitude!
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert
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