midnight
The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
Example
“Thanks to its sonar, the narwhal can remain active even at midnight, unhindered by the darkness.”
Other meanings
Twelve o'clock at night exactly.
Related words
- midnightish
- midnightly
- premidnight
- burn the midnight oil
- midnight blue
- midnight in a coal mine
- midnight chow
- midnight feast
- midnight horror
- midnight mass
- midnight movie
- midnight oil
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "midniht".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “midnight” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.