different between noon vs evening

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

English

Alternative forms

• ev'ning (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English evening, evenyng, from Old English ?fnung, from ?fnian < ?fen (from Proto-Germanic *?banþs), corresponding to even +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?v'n?ng, IPA^(key): /?i?vn??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ivn??/

Noun

evening (countable and uncountable, plural evenings)

1. The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.
2. The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.

   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
3. (figuratively) A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.

4. A party or gathering held in the evening.
   • 1980, Management Services (page 50)

     A few Gorllewin Cymru/West Wales Branch members attended an evening at the Dragon Hotel, Swansea, titled Photographic Techniques in Industry.

Synonyms

• (time of day): eve, eventide, undern (UK dialect); see also Thesaurus:evening

Coordinate terms

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• eve
• even

Translations

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?'v?n?ng, IPA^(key): /?i?v?n??/

Verb

evening

1. present participle of even

Etymology 3

Inflected forms.

Verb

evening

1. present participle of evene

Anagrams

• eevning

Dutch

Etymology

From evenen +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.v?.n??/
• Hyphenation: eve?ning

Noun

evening f (plural eveningen)

1. (obsolete) levelling, equalisation, act or process of making or becoming even or equal
2. (obsolete) equinox

   Synonyms: dag-en-nachtevening, equinox, nachtevening

Derived terms

• dag-en-nachtevening
• nachtevening