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Noontide vs Noonday - What's the difference?

noontide | noonday |

As nouns the difference between noontide and noonday

is that noontide is midday, noon while noonday is the time of noon; the time of day when the sun is highest in the sky, especially on a hot day.

As an adjective noontide

is midday.

noontide

English

Noun

(noontides)
  • midday, noon
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • midday
  • * 1610 , , act 5 scene 1
  • *:[..] I have bedimm'd
  • *:The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,
  • *:And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault
  • *:Set roaring war [...]
  • noonday

    English

    Noun

  • The time of noon; the time of day when the sun is highest in the sky, especially on a hot day.
  • * 1858 , part 9
  • She should not walk, he said, through the dust and heat of the noonday ;
    Nay, she should ride like a queen, not plod along like a peasant.

    Synonyms

    * (time of noon): midday, noon