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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Around 1,000 attendees are expected for the noon to 8 p.m. event at Peterboro Street and Cass Avenue.
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Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 26 July 2025
Southwest Flight 1496, operating on a Boeing 737, took off just before noon local time on a short flight to Las Vegas.
—Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 25 July 2025
The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center shortly before noon increased Kansas City’s risk of severe weather to a slight one, up from a marginal risk earlier in the day.
—Kansas City Star, 25 July 2025
The blaze broke out near La Posta Truck Trail and La Posta Road around noon, and its rapid spread quickly threatened structures in the area, Cal Fire officials said in a statement posted to X.
An evacuation warning was put in place for the nearby area.
—Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2025
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Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 26 July 2025
Southwest Flight 1496, operating on a Boeing 737, took off just before noon local time on a short flight to Las Vegas.
—Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 25 July 2025
The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center shortly before noon increased Kansas City’s risk of severe weather to a slight one, up from a marginal risk earlier in the day.
—Kansas City Star, 25 July 2025
The blaze broke out near La Posta Truck Trail and La Posta Road around noon, and its rapid spread quickly threatened structures in the area, Cal Fire officials said in a statement posted to X.
An evacuation warning was put in place for the nearby area.
—Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2025
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“Noon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/noon. Accessed 29 Jul. 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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