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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
/ ˈmɪdˌnaɪt /
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
- ˈmidˌnightly, adjectiveadverb
Other Words From
- midnightly adjective adverb
- post·midnight adjective
- pre·midnight noun
Word 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
As we get past midnight, some snow flurries or snow showers are possible.
We should see stars intermixed before clouds thicken more after midnight and toward dawn.
Not calm, but trending from around 10 to 15 mph early to five mph after midnight.
In reality, the ice cream machines are infamously prone to breaking down, routinely disappointing anyone trying to satisfy their midnight McFlurry craving.
I arrived at the gravel lot next to a warehouse, located deep in an industrial neighborhood, around midnight on a Saturday, LA TikTokers having told me it was the place to be.
What Happened To Director Martin Brest By Matt Patches, Playboy He directed Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run and, yes, Gigli.
We wrote Before Sunset and Before Midnight while we were working on Boyhood, and all those films are all about time.
If you think this election is about something else, your right to ask expired in Japan on Tuesday at midnight.
Jenny Slate and Rosario Dawson make out at midnight because everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.
When I reached Easter Elchies House, it was almost midnight, well, well, well passed the time that I was expected to arrive.
I thought we were in for an encore performance, but gradually the uproar died away, and by midnight all was quiet.
About midnight the combination of sultry heat and banked clouds produced the usual results.
The girls sat up till midnight, at which time Haggard and his friend were due from Rome.
Once more these huge explosions unloading their cargoes of midnight on to the evening gloom.
Edna was sobbing, just as she had wept one midnight at Grand Isle when strange, new voices awoke in her.
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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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