noontide

[ noon-tahyd ]

noun

1. the time of noon; midday.
2. the highest or best point or part:

   the noontide of one's theatrical career.

3. Literary, Archaic. midnight.

Word History and Origins

Origin of noontide¹

before 1000; Middle English nonetyde, Old English nōntīd. See noon, tide ¹

Example Sentences

Soon they were stealing through the green, noontide depths of Mossflower Wood.

From Literature

The 1885 Glidden Journal, a publication of the barbed wire company headed by Joseph Glidden, described its fence: “It watches with argus eyes the inside and outside, up, down, and lengthwise; it prevents the ‘ins’ from being ‘outs’; and the ‘outs’ from being ‘ins’; watches at day-break, at noontide, at sunset and all night long.”

From Slate

North and further north they ran, while the pallid noontide came and went and the twilight wrapped itself again around the world.

From Literature

His publishing house, Noontide Press, churned out works like Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and “For Fear of the Jews.”

From New York Times

He had a publishing company, Noontide Press, that distributed extremist literature and launched several publications, including the Washington Observer newsletter and a weekly newspaper, the Spotlight, which had a national circulation of 300,000 in the early 1980s.

From Washington Post