noon
/nun/ verb C2- To relax or sleep around midday.
He/she/it noons · Past nooned · Past participle nooned · -ing form nooning
Verb forms
- Base form
- noon
- He/she/it
- noons
- Past
- nooned
- Past participle
- nooned
- -ing form
- nooning
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He breakfasted heartily, and caring little, as he said, for the beauties of the Eternal City, ordered post-horses at noon.
TWO TRAVELERS, worn out by the heat of the summer’s sun, laid themselves down at noon under the widespreading branches of a Plane-Tree.
So after that she took no food to the imprisoned Lion; but every day she came to the gate at noon and asked, “Are you ready to be harnessed like a horse?”
But at noon, when the sun was over their heads, they did not know which was east and which was west, and that was the reason they were lost in the great fields.
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