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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Among the festivities the Proud Pet Parade on Sunday at noon on the North Stage hosted by the popular Miss Foozie.
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Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 20 June 2026
Seattle fortress There was no fashionably late-arriving crowd at the stadium on Friday for a noon start despite the revelry downtown on Thursday night.
—David Close, CNN Money, 20 June 2026
The main building at Chicago’s Ford City Mall will shut down for good — by court order — at noon on Monday, ending a yearslong legal struggle between the city and the property’s owner.
—Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2026
Just past noon, a young man appeared on the north side of San Vicente Boulevard, a block west of Hauser, and eyeballed the flow of westbound traffic.
—Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
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Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 20 June 2026
Seattle fortress There was no fashionably late-arriving crowd at the stadium on Friday for a noon start despite the revelry downtown on Thursday night.
—David Close, CNN Money, 20 June 2026
The main building at Chicago’s Ford City Mall will shut down for good — by court order — at noon on Monday, ending a yearslong legal struggle between the city and the property’s owner.
—Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2026
Just past noon, a young man appeared on the north side of San Vicente Boulevard, a block west of Hauser, and eyeballed the flow of westbound traffic.
—Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
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“Noon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/noon. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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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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