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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noonday
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the midday/noonday sun
▪ They all sought shade from the blazing midday sun.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the noonday sun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The noonday sun beat down fiercely; dusty air carried the stink of rotting garlic after a prolonged dry spell.
▪ This is one of the afflictions meted out by Meridiana, the noonday demoness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Noonday

Noonday \Noon"day`\, n. Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.

Noonday

Noonday \Noon"day`\, a. Of or pertaining to midday; meridional; as, the noonday heat; only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun. ``Noonday walks.''
--Addison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
noonday

"middle of the day," first used by Coverdale (1535), from noon + day.

Wiktionary
noonday

n. The time of noon; the time of day when the sun is highest in the sky, especially on a hot day.

WordNet
noonday

n. the middle of the day [syn: noon, twelve noon, high noon, midday, noontide]

Gazetteer
Noonday, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 515
Housing Units (2000): 222
Land area (2000): 1.991712 sq. miles (5.158510 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.991712 sq. miles (5.158510 sq. km)
FIPS code: 51756
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.245210 N, 95.392567 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Noonday, TX
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Wikipedia
Noonday

Noonday may refer to:

  • Noonday, Georgia
  • Noonday Creek, Georgia
  • Noonday, Texas

Usage examples of "noonday".

She glanced back at Ashe, who had made a quick camp and was preparing the noonday meal over a small campfire.

They found an empty table with an umbrella to shield them from the noonday sun, and ordered plates of gnocchi with tomato sauce and a bottle of light, sparkling wine Olivia agreed to share for once.

I went upstairs in my turn with my carpet bag, and supper was served directly, as we had to start very early the next morning if we wished to reach Radicofani before the noonday heat.

Sometimes in the noonday, when Robyn was lying pale and silent, resting between the periodic onslaughts of the fever, Mungo could sleep for a few hours on the pallet set at the far end of the veranda, until Juba or one of the twins called him.

The false hope of the noonday sun faded, fine rain mizzling down like exhausted tears.

They had lain in a perfect sheaf across the marble pavers, black with a touch of rubies in the noonday sun.

Obviously mammal in weight of bosom you remark that she has in front well to the fore two protuberances of very respectable dimensions, inclined to fall in the noonday soupplate, while on her rere lower down are two additional protuberances, suggestive of potent rectum and tumescent for palpation, which leave nothing to be desired save compactness.

Flying as far away as Benden Hold itself, nestled against the foothills above Benden Valley, the Weyr Peak a far point against the noonday sky, Lessa did not neglect to visualize a clearly detailed impression each time.

But I dipped my hands and my head into the cold shallows none the less pleasantly, and was casting about for a deeper pool where I might bathe unscorned of the noonday, when I heard a light laughter behind me, and, turning cautiously, perceived under the further shadow of the glade three ladies sitting.

She stared straight ahead instead, gaze fixed on some unseeable point, perhaps on the church towers whose gilded roofs glinted in the noonday sun.

It lay dimpling and scintillating beneath the noonday sun, as entirely unspoilt as fifteen years ago, when its pure loveliness was known only to trappers and Indians.

Burning avgas illuminated the southern slope of the hill like noonday.

Something sparkled, and on the hills north of town, she saw the noonday sun reflected off the windows of the big houses in Bonita Vista, like flecks of mica on a granite rock.

Even the noonday heat would not keep Fuzzy Stone from saving the diarrhetic children.

When I got my paper and my dinner at noonday the officer cut open a fowl, and plunged a fork in the other dishes so as to make sure that there were no papers at the bottom.