Midnight
['mɪdnaɪt]
Definition
(noun.) 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night; 'young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight'.
Typist: Wilhelmina--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
(a.) Being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night; as, midnight studies; midnight gloom.
Typist: Willie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. The dead of night, twelve o'clock at night.
Typist: Ollie
Examples
- They said little more; but were company to one another in silently pursuing the same subjects, and did not part until midnight. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The wind sighed low in the firs: all was moorland loneliness and midnight hush. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Some of the office employees would also drop in once in a while, and as everybody present was always welcome to partake of the midnight meal, we all enjoyed these gatherings. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It's midnight, and past; and I'll have nob'dy staying up i' my house any longer. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To midnight revelry, and the panting emulation of beauty, to costly dress and birth-day shew, to title and the gilded coronet, farewell! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Deep in midnight, she was awaked by a rustling near her; she would have started up, but her stiff joints refused to obey her will. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yet he never passed in at _my_ door--never sat in colloquy with _me_ until midnight. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Staid till midnight, but not permitted to land by these infamous foreigners. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- What sort of a woman she was, and how she came to be out alone in the high-road, an hour after midnight, I altogether failed to guess. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is near midnight, I said. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I shall no longer call you the Fairy of Midnight, he whispered, wrapping the shawl round her shoulders; your name will be the 'Moon Elf. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Three burglaries, two forgeries, and a midnight assassination. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You know it says in Scripture, 'At midnight there was a great cry made. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The carriage came again at midnight to take him home, but frequently had to wait until 2 or 3 o'clock, and sometimes return without him, as he had decided to continue all night. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She brought upon me a strange vision of Villette at midnight. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Editor: Louise