noontide

[ noon-tahyd ]

/ ˈnunˌtaɪd /

the time of noon; midday.

the highest or best point or part: the noontide of one's theatrical career.

Literary, Archaic. midnight.

Origin of noontide

before 1000; Middle English nonetyde, Old English nōntīd. See noon, tide¹

He feels that there are dark depths in his soul, gloomier pits than any into which the noontide sun shines.

The Life of David |Alexander Maclaren
But no man came forward, and all men seemed well content and of good heart; and it was now well past noontide.

The Roots of the Mountains |William Morris
I do not know what becomes of the street-merchants at the noontide of these hot days.

Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2 |Nathaniel Hawthorne
The windows in the semi-circular end are so placed that they receive the rising, noontide, and setting sun.

Museum of Antiquity |L. W. Yaggy

At such time will the down-goer bless himself, that he should be an over-goer; and the sun of his knowledge will be at noontide.

Thus Spake Zarathustra |Friedrich Nietzsche