正午
解説 Definition
昼間の時刻。正午またはその周辺の時間帯を指す。昼食時として使われることが多い。
Noontime means the middle of the day, around twelve o'clock. People use it to talk about lunch hours, daily schedules, or events happening near noon. It is a simple everyday word and is close in meaning to noon.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
まず noon（正午）を確実に押さえ、そのまま time が付いて noontime になると考えると覚えやすいです。意味は「12時ぴったり」だけでなく、その前後を含む“お昼どき”という幅のある感覚。noon より少し広く、lunchtime と重なりやすい場面で使えます。at noontime, around noontime の形で見かけることが多く、朝や夕方ではなく、太陽が最も高い時間帯をまとめて指す語として入れておくと定着します。
Build it from `noon` + `time`. That makes it easy to remember as the time around noon, not only exactly 12:00. Think of common phrases like `at noontime` or `around noontime`, where it means the midday period.
例文
We usually have lunch at noontime.
私たちは通常、昼どきに昼食をとる。
The sun reaches its highest point at noontime.
太陽は正午に最も高い位置に達する。
Many workers take their break around noontime.
多くの労働者は昼どきに休憩をとる。
noontime の類義語・関連語
noontime の語源・成り立ち Etymology
noon はラテン語 nona hora「第9時」にさかのぼり、祈りの時刻が時代とともに正午へずれました。そこに time が加わり、『昼のちょうどその時』を表します。noon や noonday が同じ語根です。
Noon goes back to Latin nona hora, meaning "ninth hour." In early timekeeping, that hour later shifted in use until it became associated with midday rather than afternoon. Noontime was then formed in English by adding time to mean the time of noon. Related words include noon and noonday.
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