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Midday; the peak
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high noon
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Wikipedia
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High Noon (Original Spanish title: La Hora Señalada ) is a 2013 Venezuelan drama short film about bullying, directed by Ivan Mazza .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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High \High\, a. [Compar. Higher ; superl. Highest .] [OE. high, hegh, hey, heh, AS. he['a]h, h?h; akin to OS. h?h, OFries. hag, hach, D. hoog, OHG. h?h, G. hoch, Icel. h?r, Sw. h["o]g, Dan. h["o]i, Goth. hauhs, and to Icel. haugr mound, G. h["u]gel ...
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
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n. the middle of the day [syn: noon , twelve noon , midday , noonday , noontide ]
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.