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Noontime vs Noontide - What's the difference?

noontime | noontide |

As nouns the difference between noontime and noontide

is that noontime is approximately noon while noontide is midday, noon.

As an adjective noontide is

midday.

noontime

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Approximately noon.

    • 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 [...]