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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The middle of the night, specifically 12 o'clock at night.
  2. n. Intense darkness or gloom.
  3. n. A period of darkness and gloom.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
  2. Pertaining to or occurring in the middle of the night: as, midnight studies.
  3. To obscure; dim; darken.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The middle of the night; 12:00 am; on a 12-hour clock, 12:00 at night; on a 24-hour clock, 00:00.
  2. n. The middle of the night: the moment of time, which is equidistant between sunset and sunrise.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
  2. adj. Being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night

Examples

  • “Sneaky Pete's, 3465 Bonita Beach Road, Bonita Springs, 498-8887. 9: 30 p. m.-1: 30 a.m. today and Saturday, West Coast South; 7: 30 p.m. - midnight, Dave Tecce; 7: 30 p. m.-midnight, Tuesday,”

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  • “Automatic Slims: Two-for-one drinks and a bottle of champagne to the best group of costumes until midnight; 8 p. m.-midnight; 954-678-7272.”

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  • “But for a lot of other people the term midnight movie probably conjures up images of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" or "Eraserheads," cult classics that used to run at independent theaters the second the witching hour began.”

    ‘The Dark Knight’ Debate: What Was The First Ever Midnight Movie? » MTV Movies Blog

  • “Based on that, I was thinking this is a book for complete neophytes, or what I call the midnight screenwriters -- those toiling away after the kids and spouse are asleep, with no formal training at film school.”

    Archive 2007-05-27

  • “Aside from its deceptively appealing title and the bold color scheme of the jacket – it had all the fierce, visionary glamour of a Tidal Basin midnight escapade with Fanne Foxe.”

    Matthew Yglesias » The Snub

  • “I thought about the lights of the city when we were out in midnight snow, and I thought about bicycles and the peacocks at the zoo.”

    Beneath the Pear Trees « A Fly in Amber

  • “Getting mugged in a "bad" neighborhood by a crack-head at midnight is one thing.”

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  • “First off black tie is 70% etiquette (which I'd forgotten), and Tom Ford dressed him in midnight blue.”

    Men's Formal Wear - dfi

  • “As the midnight approaches the Southern Cross begins to bend, and the whirling worlds change their places, and with starry finger-points the Almighty marks the passage of Time upon the dial of the universe; and though no bell may beat the glad tidings, the look-out knows that the midnight is passing – that relief and rest are close at hand.”

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hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. time of day
  1. hour

same context (14)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. noon
  2. dawn
  1. afternoon
  2. nocturnal
  1. sunset
  2. twilight
  1. endless
  2. daylight
  1. night
  2. midday
  1. then
  2. late
  1. summer
  2. distant

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. hour
  2. mean solar day
  3. civil day
  4. calendar day
  5. civil time
  6. nocturn
  7. midnightly
  8. unit
  9. eve
  10. mid-watch
  11. post meridiem
  12. midnight sun
  13. ante meridiem
  14. beauty-sleep
  15. small hours
  1. riveting
  2. endue
  3. Lanza
  4. pull
  5. morning
  6. diner
  7. astronomical day
  8. fairy rings
  9. first watch
  10. swing shift
  11. witches' sabbath
  12. Rushdie
  13. Schlesinger
  14. graveyard shift
  15. Burrell
  1. concede
  2. down
  3. hit
  4. shut
  5. P.M.
  6. paul revere
  7. sabbat
  8. beyond
  9. burn
  10. catch
  11. cook
  12. paradox
  13. matins
  14. quit
  15. raise
  1. past
  2. stroke
  3. night
  4. instruction
  5. noon
  6. evening shift
  7. graveyard watch
  8. middle watch
  9. midwatch
  10. night shift
  11. night watch
  12. revere
  13. Arctic Circle
  14. beauty sleep
  15. take
  1. noon of night
  2. periœci
  3. watch night
  4. witching hour
  5. at
  6. land
  7. lemures
  8. midnight
  9. oil
  10. Pleiad
  11. rally
  12. rise
  13. Sabbath
  14. silence
  15. strike
  1. round
  2. tide

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  • bilby There are a few around. This one's at cleverbot.com Oct 15, 2008

  • yarb I'd like to know, too. I'd like a bit of flirtatious bot-chat. Oct 14, 2008

  • frindley Exactly how does one find oneself conversing with bots? Oct 14, 2008

  • bilby Bot: Hi. What's up?
    User: October.
    Bot: You are the computer.
    User: No, you are.
    Bot: Oh no I'm not!
    User: Bald obfuscation. I expected better.
    Bot: I'm leaving.
    User: Shall I open the door?
    Bot: It's midnight... And it's so dark...
    User: If it wasn't dark it probably wouldn't be midnight.
    Bot: You are not a real person.
    Oct 14, 2008

  • skipvia Rowdy Yates. See A Horse is a Horse Feb 1, 2008

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