nones

ot noun

1. (Minnesota) Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering. After the funeral there was a lunch for those who didn't go to the cemetery.
2. (often capitalized) The notional first-quarter day of a Roman month, occurring on the 7th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 5th day of all other months. The third day before the nones of March is March 5th; the third nones of August is August 3rd; and the third of the nones of November is November 3rd.
3. The divine office appointed to the hour. The Greek monks always listen to their reader recite Psalms 83, 84, and 85 from the Septuagint at nones.
4. The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight. 1885, When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 17: