noon – English noun declension

English noun forms of noon

Noun: noon
Singularnoon
Pluralnoons

Sample Sentences

  • On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
  • The race is due to start at noon sharp.
  • The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin. [1933, Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution:]
  • The fire was put out by around 8:10 a.m. by the Rockdale County Fire Rescue. But around noon, another fire erupted, according to the CSB. [2024 November 24, Chris Boyette, “Investigators release update on BioLab chemical plant fire probe”, in CNN:]
  • So the sad mother at the noon of night / From bloody Memphis stole her silent flight […]. [1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 116:]
  • When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents […]. [1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 17:]
  • In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed. [1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:]

Etymology

From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English nōn (“the ninth hour”), from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin nōna (“ninth hour”) (short for nōna hōra), feminine of nōnus (“ninth”). Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non. See: Dutch Nouns 'noen'.

Verbs referencing "noon"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns non.