noonday
noun/ˈnundeɪ/
Etymology From noon + day.
1
The time of noon; the time of day when the sun is highest in the sky, especially on a hot day.
- She should not walk, he said, through the dust and heat of the noonday; Nay, she should ride like a queen, not plod along like a peasant.1858, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish, part 9:
2
Figuratively The time of greatest prosperity.
- Derived terms
- clear as the sun at noonday, noonday devil