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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Speaking with his daughter, officials were able to confirm that the man went surfing in the vicinity of Surfer’s Beach in Aguadilla at noon local time on Thursday, Jan 8, and had not been heard from since.
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David Chiu, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
Raul Gonzalez, 61, was arrested around noon Friday at his school in Mott Haven.
—Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026
McKee was booked at the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office in Illinois just before noon Saturday, jail records show.
—Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 12 Jan. 2026
Before noon, the group has already deliberated on all types of bedroom activities that might make one blush.
—Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
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“Noon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/noon. Accessed 20 Jan. 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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