noonday
English
Noun
noonday (countable and uncountable, plural noondays)
- The time of noon; the time of day when the sun is highest in the sky, especially on a hot day.
- 1858 — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish, part 9
- She should not walk, he said, through the dust and heat of the noonday;
Nay, she should ride like a queen, not plod along like a peasant.
- She should not walk, he said, through the dust and heat of the noonday;
- 1858 — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish, part 9
- (figuratively) The time of greatest prosperity.
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