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# noon

«noon» in Mova's school dictionary: **twelve o'clock in the middle of the day** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (noon)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Noon is twelve o'clock in the middle of the day. Noon is 12 o'clock in the daytime, also called midday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noon/#m1)

2) It is the time when the sun is about highest in the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noon/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a time on the clock: 12:00 in the day; problems count hours before or after noon; morning times are a.m., times after noon are p.m. In science: around noon shadows are shortest. Everyday life: lunch around noon. Phrases: at noon, before noon, after noon, by noon, from noon until, noon and midnight.

### examples

- The shop opens at 9 and closes at noon. How long is it open? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noon/#x1)
- Lunch is at noon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noon/#x2)
- He worked from noon until 5 o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noon/#x3)
- It is 2 hours after noon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noon/#x4)
- At noon our shadows are very short. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noon/#x5)
- We must finish the hike by noon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noon/#x6)
- The church bell rings twelve times at noon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noon/#x7)
- Noon is 12:00 in the day, and midnight is 12:00 at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noon/#x8)
- It was past noon when he awoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noon/#x9)

### note

No «a» or «the»: say «at noon». Noon = 12 p.m. (midday); midnight = 12 a.m. Means 12:00; hours from a morning time to noon = 12 − start. Trap: from 10 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon is 5 hours, passing through noon. Trap: do not mix up noon (day) with midnight (night).

### In the corpora

- ["xiàwǔ" means afternoon, literally "after noon"; shàngwǔ, "before noon", is the late morning.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/15/)
- [Fronted adverbials of time include Later that day, After lunch, At noon and Once upon a time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/18/)
- [A palindrome reads the same forwards and backwards, such as mum, dad, Nan, level and noon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/56-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders/8/)
- [In the UK and Ireland, tradition says April Fool tricks are done before midday; whoever pranks after noon is the fool.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/13/)
- [midi means noon and minuit means midnight; le Midi is also a name for the south of France.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/12-telling-the-time/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «noon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/noon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.