high noons
Twelve o'clock sharp
High noon is the middle of the day, when the sun is at its highest point.
By extension, it means the peak or culmination of something: the high noon of the Roman Empire.
The phrase also evokes decisive confrontation, from the 1952 Western film where a showdown occurs at that hour: a high noon for democracy.
The plural high noons refers to multiple such moments or periods.
- middayTwelve hours after midnight
- showdownDecisive final confrontation
- zenithPoint straight overhead
- peakUtmost height attained
- culminationHighest or final point
moral dilemmas · moral courage · frontier justice · duel · gunfight · pinnacle · confrontation · cowboy culture · climax · decisive moment · acme · standoffs · summit · intense · resolution · apex · maximum · Gary Cooper
high noonsmidnights
Plural of day's end
dead of night · witching hours · twilights · dusks · dawns
high noonsshadows
Dark areas from blocked light
midnights · blackness · darknesses · twilights · gloamings