Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Midday; noon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Midday; twelve o'clock in the day.
- Pertaining to midday; meridional: as, the noonday heat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.
- adjective Of or pertaining to midday; meridional.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
time ofnoon ; the time ofday when thesun ishighest in the sky, especially on ahot day.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the middle of the day
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Examples
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Her charms will beguile thee when noonday is nigh,
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That's the lightless pit of hell calling the noonday sky black.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs. Senior Citizens : Spinning Marty Tallulah Morehead 2010
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That's the lightless pit of hell calling the noonday sky black.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs. Senior Citizens : Spinning Marty Tallulah Morehead 2010
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That's the lightless pit of hell calling the noonday sky black.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs. Senior Citizens : Spinning Marty Tallulah Morehead 2010
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That's the lightless pit of hell calling the noonday sky black.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs. Senior Citizens : Spinning Marty Tallulah Morehead 2010
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That's the lightless pit of hell calling the noonday sky black.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs. Senior Citizens : Spinning Marty Tallulah Morehead 2010
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That's the lightless pit of hell calling the noonday sky black.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs. Senior Citizens : Spinning Marty Tallulah Morehead 2010
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I've been concerned that my medication has occasionally not been up to the job, and if it weren't for the unbridled joy of Lucy and Tessa, I'd begin to feel the familiar clutches of what Andrew Solomon called the noonday demon.
nad hen j��c eto 2010
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But it is not the accusation that admits of defence, the arrow that flies at noonday, that is most to be feared.
Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Caroline Lee Hentz 1828
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Since the word for "noonday" comes from this root, the meaning "an opening for light" (Lichtoeffnung) is the more appropriate, not roof.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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