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 attack, caught on video from multiple angles, took place just after noon on Tuesday, April 21.
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Molly Hunter, NBC news, 2 May 2026
The University of San Diego’s men’s tennis team defeated UC Santa Barbara 4-2 Friday afternoon in a first-round NCAA Tournament match at the Hogan Tennis Center on campus and will play UCLA at noon Saturday in their regional final.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026
The MacArthur Park area was flooded with people before noon, the same area where community and labor organizers gathered to call for people to come out for a rally and march on May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day.
—Paris Barraza, USA Today, 1 May 2026
Six of the seven matches will kick off at noon.
—Peter Warren, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2026
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Molly Hunter, NBC news, 2 May 2026
The University of San Diego’s men’s tennis team defeated UC Santa Barbara 4-2 Friday afternoon in a first-round NCAA Tournament match at the Hogan Tennis Center on campus and will play UCLA at noon Saturday in their regional final.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026
The MacArthur Park area was flooded with people before noon, the same area where community and labor organizers gathered to call for people to come out for a rally and march on May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day.
—Paris Barraza, USA Today, 1 May 2026
Six of the seven matches will kick off at noon.
—Peter Warren, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2026
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“Noon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/noon. Accessed 3 May. 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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