Examples of noon in a Sentence
The party will take place from noon to 4 p.m.
He showed up at precisely 12 noon.
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At noon on Monday, the national shrine rang its bells 88 times, one for each year of Francis’s life.
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Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 21 Apr. 2025
Pope Francis appeared at noon local time in his wheelchair and blessed the crowd.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2025
Chaos ensued shortly before noon on Thursday when gunfire broke out near the university’s student union, officials said.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025
Five others were hospitalized in the shootings, which began shortly before noon.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
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Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 21 Apr. 2025
Pope Francis appeared at noon local time in his wheelchair and blessed the crowd.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2025
Chaos ensued shortly before noon on Thursday when gunfire broke out near the university’s student union, officials said.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025
Five others were hospitalized in the shootings, which began shortly before noon.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
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“Noon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/noon. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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Etymology
Old English nōn "ninth hour from sunrise," derived from Latin nona, a feminine form of nonus "ninth," from novem "nine"
Word Origin
Noon has not always meant "12 o'clock in the daytime." In the ancient Roman way of keeping track of time, the hours of the day were counted from sunrise to sunset. The ninth hour of their day (about 3 p.m. nowadays) was called nona, Latin for "ninth." In the early period of English, the word was borrowed as nōn, also referring to the ninth hour after sunrise. By the 14th century, however, the word came to be used for midday, 12 o'clock, as we use it today.
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