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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By Sunday noon, the fire has been fully contained.
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The planned schedule of deals begins at noon ET with an exclusive T-shirt giveaway, followed by drops of deals for $1 Cantina Chicken Soft Tacos every other hour.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
Election results won’t be final for a few days — absentee ballots are still rolling in from military and overseas residents, due Friday at noon.
—Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
Like the noon window, there are a couple other trap games to consider here.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
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Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2025
The planned schedule of deals begins at noon ET with an exclusive T-shirt giveaway, followed by drops of deals for $1 Cantina Chicken Soft Tacos every other hour.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
Election results won’t be final for a few days — absentee ballots are still rolling in from military and overseas residents, due Friday at noon.
—Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
Like the noon window, there are a couple other trap games to consider here.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for noon
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“Noon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/noon. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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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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