different between dawn vs noon

English

Etymology

Back-formation from dawning. (If the noun rather than the verb is primary, the noun could directly continue dawing.) Compare daw (“to dawn”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?n/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /do?n/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /d?n/
• Homophones: don, Don (accents with the cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -??n

Verb

dawn (third-person singular simple present dawns, present participle dawning, simple past and past participle dawned)

1. (intransitive) To begin to brighten with daylight.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Matthew xxviii. 1

     In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene […] to see the sepulchre.

2. (intransitive) To start to appear or be realized.
3. (intransitive) To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

   • in dawning youth

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     when life awakes, and dawns at every line

Derived terms

• dawn on

Translations

Noun

dawn (countable and uncountable, plural dawns)

1. (uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
2. (countable) The rising of the sun.

   Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise

3. (uncountable) The time when the sun rises.

   Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, crack of dawn, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise, sunup

4. (uncountable) The earliest phase of something.

   Synonyms: beginning, onset, start

Antonyms

• dusk

Hypernyms

• twilight

Hyponyms

• astronomical dawn
• civil dawn
• nautical dawn

Derived terms

Related terms

• dawning

Translations

See also

• crepuscular

See also

• (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight ^{(Category: en:Times of day)}

References

• dawn at OneLook Dictionary Search
• dawn in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Dwan, wand

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dawn/

Determiner

dawn pl

1. plural of dan

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dau?n/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *don, from Proto-Celtic *d?nus (whence also Irish dán), from Proto-Indo-European *déh?nom (“gift”). Compare Latin d?num.

Noun

dawn f (plural doniau)

1. talent, natural gift, ability

Derived terms

• donio (“to gift, to endow”)
• doniog (“gifted, talented”)
• doniol (“funny”)

Etymology 2

Inflected form of dod (“to come”).

Verb

dawn

1. (colloquial) first-person plural future of dod

Alternative forms

• down (colloquial)
• deuwn (literary)

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nu?n/
• Rhymes: -u?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English n?n (“the ninth hour”), from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin n?na (“ninth hour”) (short for n?na h?ra), feminine of n?nus (“ninth”). Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.

Noun

noon (countable and uncountable, plural noons)

1. The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.

2. (obsolete) The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
   • 1885, When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 17:
3. (obsolete) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
4. (figuratively) The highest point; culmination.

   • In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.

Synonyms

• (ninth hour of daylight): nones
• (midpoint of the day): midday, nones, noontide, twelve; see also Thesaurus:midday
• (midnight): noon of night; see also Thesaurus:midnight
• (highest point): capstone; see also Thesaurus:apex

Antonyms

• (middle of the night): midnight

Translations

See also

• (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight ^{(Category: en:Times of day)}

Verb

noon (third-person singular simple present noons, present participle nooning, simple past and past participle nooned)

1. To relax or sleep around midday
   • 1853, Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle

     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.

   • 1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Chapter XX

     Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple—man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook.

   • 1906, Andy Adams, The Double Trail

     Well, we crossed and nooned, lying around on purpose to give them a good lead, and when we hit the trail back in these sand-hills, there he was, not a mile ahead, and you can see there was no chance to get around

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:sleep

Etymology 2

Noun

noon (plural noons)

1. The letter ? in the Arabic script.

Anagrams

• no no, no-no, nono

Arapaho

Noun

noon

1. egg

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English n?n, from ne + ?n.

Determiner

noon

1. no (not any)
   • 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue

Descendants

• English: none
• Scots: nane

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: no?on
• IPA^(key): /no?on/

Adverb

noon

1. when

2. indicates past time