noontime

n. 中午

词形变化

noontimes 复数 noontimes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Noon.

  2. 2.

    Approximately noon.

    the noontime hours

  3. 3.

    The time at which something peaks in some way (e.g., in vitality, in influence, in reknown) (by analogy with the waxing of the sun each day).

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词源

From noon + time, perhaps an innovation of earlier English noontide (“noontime”), from Middle English noon tijd, from Old English nōntīd (“noontime”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English merian, merion (“noontime”) from Old French meriiene, merīane (“noontime”).

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