noonday
Etymology
noon + day
noun
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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 -
(figurative) The time of greatest prosperity.
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