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{
"term": "noon",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "12 o’clock in the middle of the day",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We should be there by noon."
},
{
"text": "The conference opens at 12 noon on Saturday."
},
{
"text": "the noon deadline for the end of hostilities"
},
{
"text": "I'm leaving on the noon train."
}
],
"synonyms": "midday",
"topics": ["Time"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["12", "high"],
"preposition": ["around noon", "at noon", "by noon"],
"phrases": ["morning, noon and night"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "at all times of the day and night (used to emphasize that something happens very often or that it happens continuously)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She talks about him morning, noon and night."
},
{
"text": "The work continues morning, noon and night."
},
{
"text": "It's all she talks about, morning, noon and night."
}
],
"topics": ["Time"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/nuːn/",
"audio": "no/noon/noon__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/nuːn/",
"audio": "no/noon/noon__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English nōn ‘the ninth hour from sunrise, i.e. approximately 3 p.m.’, from Latin nona (hora) ‘ninth hour’."
}