Noontide vs Noonday - What's the difference?
noontide | noonday |
midday, noon
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 [...]
The time of noon; the time of day when the sun is highest in the sky, especially on a hot day.
* 1858 — , part 9
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)Adjective
(en adjective)noonday
English
Noun
- 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.