Examples of noon in a Sentence
The party will take place from noon to 4 p.m.
He showed up at precisely 12 noon.
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The first public notice of it came shortly before noon Monday — more than eight hours after the deadly encounter — when the California Attorney General’s Office issued a press release announcing that the state’s Department of Justice was investigating the incident under Assembly Bill 1506.
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Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026
Christopher Maxwell, 56, was arrested at noon Monday in the first block of Third Avenue Bridge in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, police said.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
The interstate, which closed in both directions Friday evening, reopened around noon Saturday.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2026
The timeline was among the most precise information provided by Arizona law enforcement officials since Guthrie was reported missing around noon Sunday, setting off a desperate search that now includes both state and federal agencies.
—Dennis Romero, NBC news, 9 Feb. 2026
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Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026
Christopher Maxwell, 56, was arrested at noon Monday in the first block of Third Avenue Bridge in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, police said.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
The interstate, which closed in both directions Friday evening, reopened around noon Saturday.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2026
The timeline was among the most precise information provided by Arizona law enforcement officials since Guthrie was reported missing around noon Sunday, setting off a desperate search that now includes both state and federal agencies.
—Dennis Romero, NBC news, 9 Feb. 2026
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“Noon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/noon. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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Etymology
Old English nōn "ninth hour from sunrise," derived from Latin nona, a feminine form of nonus "ninth," from novem "nine"
Word Origin
Noon has not always meant "12 o'clock in the daytime." In the ancient Roman way of keeping track of time, the hours of the day were counted from sunrise to sunset. The ninth hour of their day (about 3 p.m. nowadays) was called nona, Latin for "ninth." In the early period of English, the word was borrowed as nōn, also referring to the ninth hour after sunrise. By the 14th century, however, the word came to be used for midday, 12 o'clock, as we use it today.
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