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midnight
[ mid-nahyt ]
noun
- the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
adjective
- of or relating to midnight.
- resembling midnight, as in darkness.
midnight
/ ˈɪˌԲɪ /
noun
- the middle of the night; 12 o'clock at night
- ( as modifier )
the midnight hour
- burn the midnight oilto work or study late into the night
Derived Forms
- ˈˌԾٱ, adjectiveadverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- nl adjective adverb
- Dz·n adjective
- ·n noun
51Թ History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- burn the midnight oil, to study or work far into the night:
After months of burning the midnight oil, he really needed a vacation.
Example Sentences
Afterward Edmonton’s ICE District, a town square centered around the hockey arena, continued buzzing until well after midnight.
Whisk up some morning matcha In my perfect world, I’d fall asleep at midnight and get nine hours of sleep, which would be perfect.
On Saturday, President Vladimir Putin announced a unilateral Easter truce in Ukraine until midnight Sunday night in Moscow.
As midnight approached, the psychic tension in the room crystallized into apocalyptic terror.
Just ask Oliver and his Dad at midnight.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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