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high noon

noun

  1. the exact moment of noon.
  2. the high point of a stage or period; peak; pinnacle:

    a book written at the high noon of his career.

  3. Informal. a crisis or confrontation.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of high noon1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

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Example Sentences

High-noon came and passed, finding and leaving him in absorbed contemplation of his own thought.

At high-noon they had reached what appeared to be a deserted castle, situated in the midst of a flowery oasis.

A partly demented young man clamouring to see you at high-noon while the cold cruel cause of his lunacy looks on and laughs.

It was high-noon, dreamy, entranced, all the world golden with the magnificent weather as a holly-hock is golden with pollen.

There stood his sisters by the quern, For the high-noon cakes they needs must earn.

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