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• n  the middle of the day

• Though we speak of the noontide sun as "beating down" on our heads, it does nothing of the kind.
• It was best seen after dark when great batteries of floodlights poured a spurious noontide over the rising, mile-long ramparts of fresh concrete.

• noon
• twelve noon
• high noon
• midday
• noonday

Quotes

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• William Wordsworth in New York Times
  In his poem "The Excursion," William Wordsworth writes of a man who dies while enjoying some "noontide solace on the summer grass, the warm lap of his mother earth."