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What (who) is midnight - definition

12 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT; TRANSITION TIME PERIOD FROM ONE DAY TO THE NEXT
Solar midnight; 12:00 AM; 00:00; The midnight hour; Local midnight; 00.00; 0:00
  • Photograph taken at midnight
  • Midnight at [[Metz]] railway station, in France

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Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Midnight is twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.
It was well after midnight by the time Anne returned to her apartment...
N-UNCOUNT: usu prep N
2.
Midnight is used to describe something which happens or appears at midnight or in the middle of the night.
It is totally out of the question to postpone the midnight deadline...
ADJ: ADJ n
3.
If someone is burning the midnight oil, they are staying up very late in order to study or do some other work.
Chris is asleep after burning the midnight oil trying to finish his article.
PHRASE: V inflects
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n.
The dead of night, twelve o'clock at night.

Wikipedia

Midnight

Midnight is the transition time from one day to the next – the moment when the date changes, on the local official clock time for any particular jurisdiction. By clock time, midnight is the opposite of noon, differing from it by 12 hours.

Solar midnight is the time opposite to solar noon, when the Sun is closest to the nadir, and the night is equidistant from dusk and dawn. Due to the advent of time zones, which regularize time across a range of meridians, and daylight saving time, solar midnight rarely coincides with 12 midnight on the clock. Solar midnight depends on longitude and time of the year rather than on time zone. In ancient Roman timekeeping, midnight was halfway between sunset and sunrise (i.e., solar midnight), varying according to the seasons.

In some Slavic languages, "midnight" has an additional geographic association with "north" (as "noon" does with "south"). Modern Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Serbian languages preserve this association with their words for "midnight" or "half-night" (północ, поўнач, північ, пoнoħ) also meaning "north."

Examples of use of midnight
1. "If he said it was midnight, then it was midnight."
2. Dynamo Open 6 p.m. to midnight on weekdays, noon to midnight on weekends.
3. Monday–Wednesday and Friday from noon to midnight; Thursday, 10 a.m.– midnight; Saturday–Sunday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
4. Gilchrest (R) claimed victory shortly after midnight.
5. Looking dishevelled, he left just after midnight.