different between noon vs nones

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

Etymology 1

From Latin n?nus (“ninth”).

As a day of the Roman calendar, via n?nae (“ninth days”) from the original Roman practice of counting forward to the next full or new crescent moon, the nones' occurrence 8 days before the ides of every month (9 counting inclusively) following the establishment of a fixed calendar, and from the Latin practice of treating most recurring calendrical days as plurals. Some scholars believe the name is a variant of the nundines (n?ndinae f?riae (“ninth-day festival”)), the Roman market days held every eight days (9 counting inclusively), which were likely announced for each coming month by the Roman kings on the first-quarter days.

As a time of day, via the plural form of Middle English, Anglo-Norman, & French none and Latin n?na (“ninth hour”) after the manner of earlier matins, vespers, etc. As a meal, from the time of day, whether from its plural, genitive, or the occasional adverbial sense of -s.

Alternative forms

• (Roman date): Nones, Non.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n??nz/
• Rhymes: -??nz

Noun

nones (plural nones)

1. (historical, often capitalized) The notional first-quarter day of a Roman month, occurring on the 7th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 5th day of all other months.
   • 10th century, Byrhtferð of Ramsey, Enchiridion (Ashmolean MS 328), Book I, Chapter ii, Section 22:

     Þa monðas þe habbað iiii nonas æfter kalendas... habbað to idus xiii dagas and to ii kalendas eahtatyne.

     Those months that have 4 nones after the kalends... have 13 days to the ides and eighteen to the second kalends.

   • 14th century, John Trevisa trans. Bartholomaeus Anglicus's De Proprietatibus Rerum, folio 119:

     Þe caniculer dayes biginnyth in þe fiftenþe kalendis of august and endiþ in þe nonis of septembris, and so þey ben euene fifty as it is seide þere.

     The canicular days begin on the fifteenth kalends of August [i.e., July 18th] and end on the nones [i.e., 5th] of September, and so they are even fifty as it is said there.

   • 1679, J. Moxon, Mathematics made Easie, p. 26:

     The Roman Month its several days divides
     By reckoning backwards, Calends, Nones, and Ides.

   • 2011, Robert A. Kaster trans. Macrobius, Saturnalia, Book I, Chapter xiii, Section 18:

     As for the Nones, it was thought that the multitudes should avoid mass meetings then because after the kings were expelled, the Roman people particularly celebrated what they took to be Servius Tullius's birthday: because crowds notoriously thronged all the Nones—it being well-known that Servius was born on the Nones, though the exact month was uncertain—those in charge of the calendar were afraid that if the whole population gathered on a market day it might start to revolt out of yearning for the king, and so they took the precaution of keeping the Nones and market days distinct.

   • 2011, Robert A. Kaster trans. Macrobius, Saturnalia, Book I, Chapter xiv, Section 8:

     [March, May, Quintilis, and October] also have their Nones on the seventh, as Numa ordained, because Julius changed nothing about them. As for January, Sextilis, and December, they still have their Nones on the fifth, though they began to have thirty-one days after Caesar added two days to each, and it is nineteen days from their Ides to the following Kalends, because in adding the two days Caesar did not want to insert them before either the Nones or the Ides, lest an unprecedented postponement mar religious observance associated with the Nones or Ides themselves, which have a fixed date.

   Coordinate terms: calends, ides

2. (historical, sometimes capitalized) The ninth hour after dawn (about 3 pm).
   • 1709, John Johnson, The Clergy-Man's Vade Mecum, Pt. II, p. 101:

     ...the same Liturgy of prayers be used both at Nones and Vespers.
     [With the note:] Nones was what we call three o'clock in the afternoon.

   • 1805, Robert Southey, Madoc, Vol. I, xiii, 134:

     From noon till nones
     The brethren sate.

   Synonyms: none, (obsolete) noon

   Hypernyms: canonical hours, tide, stound

3. (Christian) The divine office appointed to the hour.

   Synonym: none

   Hypernym: canonical hours

4. (obsolete) Alternative form of noon: the sixth hour after dawn; midday (12 pm).
5. (obsolete) Synonym of lunch: a meal eaten around noon.
   • c. 1400, William Langland, The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman (Laud MS 581), v. 378:

     I... ouer-seye me at my sopere and some tyme at nones.

Usage notes

English use of the Roman calendrical term always employs the Romans' inclusive dating, including the nones itself when counting. Thus, the "third day before the nones of March" (a.d. iii Non. Mart.) is March 5th: two days before March 7th, not three.

English usage also often follows the Latin contraction of the phrasing, which omits the words ante diem. March 5th may appear as the "third nones of March" or the "third of the nones of March". Thus, the "second nones" (pr?di? n?n?s) is the 6th day of the old long months and the 4th day of the other months; the "third nones" (tertia n?n?s) is the day before that; and the "fourth nones" is the day before that. The day before the fourth nones of the old short months is their calends, whereas the four old long months have a "fifth" and "sixth nones" as well.

Synonyms

• (sixth hour of daylight): midday, noon, noontide; see also Thesaurus:midday

Translations

Etymology 2

See Nones.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /n?nz/
• Rhymes: -?nz

Noun

nones pl

1. Alternative form of Nones: atheists or those without religious affiliation.

References

Anagrams

• neons, onsen, sonne

Old French

Noun

nones f pl

1. nominative plural of none

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nones/, [?no.nes]

Adverb

nones

1. absolutely not; no way