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Midday; the peak
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high noon
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Wikipedia
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High Noon , also known as Nora Roberts' High Noon , is a 2009 television film directed by Peter Markle , which stars Emilie de Ravin and Ivan Sergei . The film is based on the Nora Roberts novel of the same name and is part of the Nora Roberts 2009 movie ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context idiomatic English) Exactly noon; midday (when the sun is at its highest) 2 (context idomatic figuratively English) The zenith or apex of one's life or of a certain activity or plot. 3 (context idiomatic English) A time, set out in advance, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the middle of the day [syn: noon , twelve noon , midday , noonday , noontide ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Noon \Noon\ (n[=oo]n), n. [AS. n[=o]n, orig., the ninth hour, fr. L. nona (sc. hora) the ninth hour, then applied to the church services (called nones) at that hour, the time of which was afterwards changed to noon. See Nine , and cf. Nones , Nunchion .] ...
Usage examples of high noon.
At high noon or thereabouts, a trumpeter played something to get everyone's attention, a priest said a prayer, and the challenger and champion waited with their helmets off before the crowd.
Di had decided that it wasn't quite so hard to believe the old dust-bowl stories of the sky being black at high noon.
I never heard of him shooting anybody on the public square at high noon.
Each side might send a score of people thither at high noon, unarmed.
At high noon I mounted my paifrey and met Sir Roger to go to the conference.
Admittedly, the era of Kapitan Leutnant Prien-his U-boat long ago sent to the bottom with all hands by the destroyer Wolverine, and his illustrious contemporaries, the hey-day of the great U-boat Commanders, the high noon of individual brilliance and great personal gallantry, was gone.
Sarindar has a twenty-eight-hour day-the windows are at high noon and midnight, and they only last from thirteen to twenty-two minutes.