noontime

Meaning

Noun

  • Noon.
  • Approximately noon.
  • The time at which something peaks in some way (e.g., in vitality, in influence, in reknown) .

Origin

  • From , perhaps an innovation of earlier English noontide, from Middle English noon tijd, from Old English nōntīd. Eclipsed non-native Middle English merian, merion from Old French meriiene, merīane.

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