noonday

Speech parts

1. noonday - Noun

2. noonday - Adjective

Meaning

Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.

Of or pertaining to midday; meridional; as, the noonday heat.

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Examples

I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor. Davy Crockett

I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, poor heart, unceasingly; And thou shalt find thy dream to be A truth and noonday light to thee. Ellen Sturgis Hooper

All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point? Bertrand Russell

In Hong Kong They strike a gong And fire off a noonday gun To reprimand Each inmate Who's in late. Noël Coward

In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn. In the history of the human mind, these glowing and ruddy fables precede the noonday thoughts of men, as Aurora the sun's rays. Henry David Thoreau

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun. Hindi Proverb

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