midnight
The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
Noun 3 meanings
The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
“Thanks to its sonar, the narwhal can remain active even at midnight, unhindered by the darkness.”
Twelve o'clock at night exactly.
Synonym of boxcars (“a pair of sixes”).
Adjective 1 meaning
Utterly dark or black.
Etymology
From Middle English midnight, from Old English midniht, from Proto-Germanic *midjanahts (“midnight”), equivalent to mid- + night. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Midnoacht (“midnight”), Old High German mittinaht (“midnight”), Danish midnat (“midnight”), Swedish midnatt (“midnight”), Icelandic miðnætti (“midnight”).
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MIDNIGHT at a glance
MIDNIGHT has 8 letters and scores 15 points in Scrabble (M 3 + I 1 + D 2 + N 1 + I 1 + G 2 + H 4 + T 1) and 17 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,172 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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