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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The Kankakee Sheriff's Office said just before noon, deputies arrived at The Line bar near the Illinois-Indiana state line along Route 114 for reports of a possibly deceased person.
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Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
The schedule begins with a two-hour block of short films at noon, followed by panel discussion with the shorts filmmakers that shifts into a free lunch catered by Red Rock Tavern.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2026
The inmate, 26-year-old Victor Castillo, escaped around noon from the facility at 5401 Resource Drive, according to Robbie Hoy, a spokesperson for the Tarrant County sheriff’s office.
—Timia Cobb, Dallas Morning News, 3 Feb. 2026
Attorneys representing the women have requested that the DOJ commit to removing their identities from millions of publicly available files by noon on Wednesday, or else temporarily take the website down.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2026
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Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
The schedule begins with a two-hour block of short films at noon, followed by panel discussion with the shorts filmmakers that shifts into a free lunch catered by Red Rock Tavern.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2026
The inmate, 26-year-old Victor Castillo, escaped around noon from the facility at 5401 Resource Drive, according to Robbie Hoy, a spokesperson for the Tarrant County sheriff’s office.
—Timia Cobb, Dallas Morning News, 3 Feb. 2026
Attorneys representing the women have requested that the DOJ commit to removing their identities from millions of publicly available files by noon on Wednesday, or else temporarily take the website down.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2026
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“Noon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/noon. Accessed 4 Feb. 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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