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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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
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
The original manuscript title of this ode was "Noontide."
From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Carruthers, Robert
Noontide meetings were held in workshops, factories and railroad stations, and while the men ate their lunch a short suffrage talk was given or some good leaflet read aloud.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted
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
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