noontide

Questions about noontide

What does noontide mean?

noontide means "the middle of the day".

How many syllables are in noontide?

noontide has 2 syllables and divides as noon-tide under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for noontide?

Close synonyms include noon, twelve noon, high noon, midday, noonday. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is noontide a common word?

noontide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.