different between noon vs night
noon
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)
- The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
- (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:
- (obsolete) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
- (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)
- 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
- 1853, Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:sleep
Etymology 2
Noun
noon (plural noons)
- The letter ? in the Arabic script.
Anagrams
- no no, no-no, nono
Arapaho
Noun
noon
- egg
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English n?n, from ne + ?n.
Determiner
noon
- no (not any)
- 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
- 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
Descendants
- English: none
- Scots: nane
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: no?on
- IPA(key): /no?on/
Adverb
noon
- when
- indicates past time
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night
English
Alternative forms
- nite (informal)
Etymology
From Middle English nighte, night, nyght, ni?t, naht, from Old English niht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht (“night”), from Proto-Germanic *nahts (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nók?ts (“night”). Cognate with Scots nicht, neicht (“night”), West Frisian nacht (“night”), Dutch nacht (“night”), Low German Nacht (“night”), German Nacht (“night”), Danish nat (“night”), Swedish and Norwegian natt (“night”), Faroese nátt (“night”), Icelandic nótt (“night”), Latin nox (“night”), Greek ????? (nýchta, “night”), Russian ???? (no??, “night”), Sanskrit ????? (nákti, “night”).
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) enPR: n?t, IPA(key): /na?t/
- (UK, Scottish) IPA(key): /n??t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
- Homophone: knight
Noun
night (countable and uncountable, plural nights)
- (countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
- The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
- (astronomy, countable) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
- (law, countable) Often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
- (countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
- (countable) A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a place away from home, e.g. a hotel.
- (uncountable) Nightfall.
- (uncountable) Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
- (uncountable) A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
- (sports, colloquial) A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:night.
Synonyms
- (evening or night spent at a particular activity): evening; see also Thesaurus:nighttime or Thesaurus:evening
- (quality of sleep): sleep
- (nightfall): dark, dusk, nightfall, sundown, sunset; see also Thesaurus:dusk
- (darkness): blackness, darkness, gloom, obscurity, shadow
Antonyms
- (period between sunset and sunrise): day; see also Thesaurus:daytime
- (darkness): brightness, daylight, light
Hypernyms
- 24-hour day
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Pijin: naet
- ? Korean: ??? (naiteu)
Translations
See also
- (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight (Category: en:Times of day)
Interjection
night
- Ellipsis of good night
Translations
Verb
night (third-person singular simple present nights, present participle nighting, simple past and past participle nighted)
- To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.
- 2008, Richard F. Burton, Arabian Nights, in 16 volumes, p.284:
- "So I took seat and ate somewhat of my vivers, my horse also feeding upon his fodder, and we nighted in that spot and next morning I set out […]."
- 2008, Richard F. Burton, Arabian Nights, in 16 volumes, p.284:
References
- night at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Thing, thing
Italian
Etymology
Pseudo-anglicism, borrowed from English night with the meaning of nightclub.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?najt/
- Hyphenation: night
Noun
night m (invariable)
- nightclub
- 2014, Gianfranco Tomei, Sole nero, Edizioni Nuova Cultura, page 42.
- 2014, Gianfranco Tomei, Sole nero, Edizioni Nuova Cultura, page 42.
Middle English
Noun
night (plural nights)
- Alternative form of nighte
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English night.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?najt??/
Noun
night f (plural nights)
- nightlife (nocturnal entertainment activities, especially parties and shows)
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