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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
/ ˈ³¾Éª»åËŒ²Ô²¹Éª³Ù /
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
- ˈ³¾¾±»åËŒ²Ô¾±²µ³ó³Ù±ô²â, adjectiveadverb
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³¾¾±»ån¾±²µ³ó³Ùl²â adjective adverb
- ±è´Ç²õ³Ù·³¾¾±»ån¾±²µ³ó³Ù adjective
- ±è°ù±ð·³¾¾±»ån¾±²µ³ó³Ù noun
˜yÐÄvlog 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
"I worked unsociable hours, I finished late, sometimes midnight or one in the morning, it was just the safest option for me to go down there."
Sherman shared alarming video from his residential security cameras of his home being burglarized at gunpoint by three men shortly after midnight March 30 — which happened to be the three-time All-Pro’s 37th birthday.
Measures such as the 25% tariff on automobiles starting at midnight on Thursday would "directly affect millions of Canadians", he added.
A new import tax of 25% on all foreign-built cars was also announced by Trump, coming into effect at midnight local time.
Those tariffs would go into affect almost immediately, at midnight on 3 April.
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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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