Soon vs Noon - What's the difference?
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Occurring within a short time, or quickly.
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Within a short time; quickly.
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Readily; willingly; used with would , or some other word expressing will.
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
(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.
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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)
*: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.
As an adjective soon
is occurring within a short time, or quickly.As an adverb soon
is (label) immediately, instantly.As a noun noon is
(obsolete) the ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon or noon can be the letter in the arabic script.As a verb noon is
to relax or sleep around midday.soon
English
(wikipedia soon)Adjective
(er)F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
Adverb
(er)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly,
Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese
- How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?
- I would as soon see a river winding through woods or in meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical figures at Versailles.
Derived terms
* get well soon * sooner or later * soon enough * soonish * too soonStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----noon
English
(wikipedia noon)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.Noun
(en noun)- In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.
Antonyms
* (middle of the night) midnightSee also
*Verb
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