midnight

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

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  • Although it was well after midnight, a lamp still burned bright within the humble lodgings. —  Teresa Medeiros - Thief of Hearts
  • And I watched him go into your room at somewhere round about midnight, and when I had the curiosity to look at the hotel register I found you were down as Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Smith. —  Out of the Past - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 23: 1953
  • It was now almost midnight, and for a reason which he was loth to admit, he did not feel like leaving the house until the morning. —  Police at the Funeral - Margery Allingham - Campion 04: 1931
  • Like eternity, they seem to have neither beginning, end, nor relation to time; midnight is as high noon, and you cut into them at any time or point you please—provided that you know how. —  OM: The Secret of Ahbor Valley
  • “No. It is already after midnight, and you see—nothing horrid has happened We must leave,” I tell her firmly. —  Susan Palwick - Ever After
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  1. from Middle English midnight, midnyght, mydnyght, also middelniʒte, from Anglo-Saxon midniht (also middelniht) (= D. Middle Low German middernacht = Old High German mittinaht, Middle High German mitnaht, German mitternacht (D. Middle Low German midder-, German mitter-, orig. dative of the adjective) = Icelandic midhnætti = Swedish midnatt = Danish midnat), from mid, middle, + niht, night.
  2. from midnight, n.
 

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