noon

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /nuːn/    美 /nun/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon. countable,uncountable
    — On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
  2. The letter ن in the Arabic script.
  3. The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.; The mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks. countable,uncountable
  4. The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — So the sad mother at the noon of night / From bloody Memphis stole her silent flight […].
  5. The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  6. The highest point; culmination. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.
动词 v.
  1. To relax or sleep around midday. intransitive
    — We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning, the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake.

词形变化

noons plural noons present,singular,third-person nooning participle,present nooned participle,past nooned past noons plural

词汇关系

近义词
nones noontide twelve
反义词
midnight
衍生词
beforenoon forenoon good noon high noon Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon John-go-to-bed-at-noon midnoon morning-noon-and-night nap-at-noon noon balloon noonday nooner noon-flower noonflower noon fly noon gun noonish noonlight noonly noonmark noonmeat noonsie noonstead noontime noon-time nuncheon prenoon sleep-at-noon solar noon

词源

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.
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