midnight
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noun
1.
the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
adjective
Idioms 2.
of or pertaining to midnight.
3.
resembling midnight, as in darkness.
4.
burn the midnight oil, to study or work far into the night: After months of burning the midnight oil, he really needed a vacation.
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midnight (ˈmɪdˌnaɪt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. the middle of the night; 12 o'clock at night |
| b. (as modifier): the midnight hour | |
| 2. | burn the midnight oil to work or study late into the night |
| 'midnightly | |
| —adj, —adv | |
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Midnight
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
midnight
O.E. mid-niht, or middre niht (with dative). Midnight oil symbolizing "late night work" is attested from 1635.
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Example sentences
At midnight my temporary respite from blindness would cease, and permanent night would close in on me again.
He promised that the night market, with food stalls and music, would close at midnight.
Or the one you can dial at midnight, shrieking with out-of-bounds joy.
Doing the sleepy-time math, this means you need to get to sleep before midnight.
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