midnight
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈmɪdˌnaɪt/
:
medianoche
- The fireworks will start at midnight to celebrate the New Year.
- past midnight
- close to midnight
- midnight to 4 a.m.
And he always eats like at midnight when I'm sleeping.
- And he always eats like at midnight when I'm sleeping.
- We released our first episode on midnight on Christmas Eve.
- The, the Chinese government that night at midnight went into the lab.
- All right, Paul was like, this is midnight now in rural France.
- It was my first experience with midnight book releases.
- Every day a new word is released at midnight and then everyone plays it.
- And I asked them how often do they stay after midnight working?
- And then Keith, mind you again, it is like midnight and the walls are paper thin.
- Midnight is no longer midnight for society, but it is for them.
- Remember Best Buy every midnight, Best Buy, get it, get this.
Examples
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We released our first episode on midnight on Christmas Eve.
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There's a train leaving at midnight for Philadelphia.
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Hey guys, so it is midnight and I am tired.
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Every day a new word is released at midnight and then everyone plays it.
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Tomorrow night at midnight, we're going to throw him a little surprise party.
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I was expecting you around midnight.
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They announced it at midnight on New Year's Day.
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I haven't been out and about at midnight in years.
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The King died at five minutes before midnight in his own house, Sandringham, in Norfolkshire.
Fiction book (1990) -
Some say he walks the moors every midnight; others claim he's been dead for years.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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4.6
At a very late, quiet time when most people are asleep
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Compounds
- US
4
6.3
The sun visible at midnight during summer in places inside the Arctic or Antarctic Circle
How Late
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4.9
15
4.6
27
2.7
798
1.0
5
1.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Midnight is made from mid- meaning 'middle' and night meaning 'night'. So, midnight is the 'middle of the night', which is why it means 12 o'clock at night.