NOON

Definitions

1. 1. The middle of the day; midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime.
2. 2. Hence, the highest point; culmination. In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed. Motley. High noon, the exact meridian; midday. -- Noon of night, midnight. [Poetic] Dryden.