Noonday
['nuːndeɪ] or ['nunde]
Definition
(n.) Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.
(a.) Of or pertaining to midday; meridional; as, the noonday heat.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Midday, noon, meridian, twelve o'clock.
Typist: Nelly
Examples
- There are great trees standing all about it, with their branches stretching long and level, and making a deep shade of rest even at noonday. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I want it to catch the noonday poSt We go to Lady Danvers when we leave here, she added, as Eunice left the room. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- All these are crushing questions; but whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But all was profoundly hushed in the noonday stillness of a house, where an invalid catches the unrefreshing sleep that is denied to the night-hours. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- From the early dawn of human history to its present noonday civilisation the progress of man may be traced in his pottery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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