noon

noun6

1. •
   the middle of the day, when the sun is highest in the sky

   • On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
   • The race is due to start at noon sharp.
2. •
   The mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks.
3. •
   (figurative) The highest point; culmination.

   • In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed. — 1856
4. •
   The letter ن in the Arabic script.
5. •
   (no longer used) The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.

   • So the sad mother at the noon of night / From bloody Memphis stole her silent flight […]. — 1789
6. •
   (no longer used) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.

verb1

1. •
   To relax or sleep around midday.

   • Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple—man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook. — 1889

noun2

1. •
   An ethnic people who occupy western Senegal.
2. •
   The language of these people.