midnight
//ˈmɪd(ˌ)naɪt//
Forms
- Plural
- midnights
Definitions
1.The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
- Thanks to its sonar, the narwhal can remain active even at midnight, unhindered by the darkness.
- And vpon the first day of the weeke, when the disciples came together to breake bread, Paul preached vnto them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continued his speach vntill midnight.
2.Twelve o'clock at night exactly.
- The police report said that officers, who told CNN they are not currently pursuing criminal charges, arrived to the scene just after midnight and found Gillum and a second person, Aldo Mejias, in the hotel room.
3.Synonym of boxcars (“a pair of sixes”).
- Do you always go to bed before midnight?
1.Utterly dark or black.
- Free and falling, his midnight hair flowed out all around us like a silk canopy.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3622
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English midnight, from Old English midniht, from Proto-Germanic *midjanahts (“midnight”), equivalent to mid- + night.