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Morning vs Noon - What's the difference?

morning | noon |

As nouns the difference between morning and noon

is that morning is the part of the day from dawn to midday while noon is the ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.

As an interjection morning

is a greeting said in the morning; good morning.

As a verb noon is

to relax or sleep around midday.

morning

English

Noun

(wikipedia morning) (en noun)
  • The part of the day from dawn to midday.
  • * 1835 , Sir , Sir (James Clark Ross), Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage … , Volume 1, pp.284-5
    • Towards the following morning , the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
  • The part of the day after midnight and before midday: one o'clock in the morning = 0100 or 1 a.m.

    • Antonyms

    * evening

    Derived terms

    * coffee morning * morn * morning after * morning-after pill * morning call * morning coat * morning draught * morning dress * morning glory * morning person * Morning Prayer * morning room * morning sickness * morning star * morning suit * morning tea

    See also

    *

    Interjection

    (en-interjection)
  • A greeting said in the morning; good morning

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    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words

    noon

    English

    (wikipedia noon)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
  • Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
  • (obsolete) The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
  • * 1885', When night was at its '''noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents — Sir Richard Burton, ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 17:
  • (figurative) The highest point; culmination.
  • * Motley
    • In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.
    Synonyms
    * (sense, twelve o'clock in the day) noontide, noon-time, midday, twelve (o'clock)
    Antonyms
    * (middle of the night) midnight
    See also
    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To relax or sleep around midday
  • * 1906 , (Andy Adams), The Double Trail
  • *:Well, we crossed and nooned , lying around on purpose to give them a good lead, and when we hit the trail back in these sand-hills, there he was, not a mile ahead, and you can see there was no chance to get around.
  • * 1889 , (Mark Twain), (w, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court) Chapter XX
  • *: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.
  • * 1853 , (Theodore Winthrop), The Canoe and the Saddle
  • *:We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning , the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The letter in the Arabic script.

    • Anagrams

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