{
    "term": "noon",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "12 o’clock in the middle of the day",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We should be there by noon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The conference opens at 12 noon on Saturday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the noon deadline for the end of hostilities"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm leaving on the noon train."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "midday",
            "topics": ["Time"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["12", "high"],
                "preposition": ["around noon", "at noon", "by noon"],
                "phrases": ["morning, noon and night"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "at all times of the day and night (used to emphasize that something happens very often or that it happens continuously)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She talks about him morning, noon and night."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The work continues morning, noon and night."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's all she talks about, morning, noon and night."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/nuːn/",
                "audio": "no/noon/noon__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/nuːn/",
                "audio": "no/noon/noon__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English nōn ‘the ninth hour from sunrise, i.e. approximately 3 p.m.’, from Latin nona (hora) ‘ninth hour’."
}