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名詞

noontime (複数形 noontimes)

1. Noon.

   Synonym: high noon

2. Approximately noon.

   the noontime hours

3. (figuratively) The time at which something peaks in some way (e.g., in vitality, in influence, in reknown) (by analogy with the waxing of the sun each day).
   • 1890, Collins, J.W., “Society proceedings of the Colorado State Medical Society”, in The Omaha Clinic‎^[1], volume 3, number 5, page 131:

     We should so organize our rank and mobilize our forces that our influence may not be dissipated before the advancing hosts of quackery and ignorance. This we can do effectively if only the wise and successful ones among our leaders can be induced to forgo the dolce far niente of the noontime of their lives.

名詞

noon-time (複数形 noon-times)

1. noontide; noon; the middle of the day.

同意語

• midday, noon, noontide, twelve; see also Thesaurus:midday

派生語

• noontimes