midnight
Plural: midnights
Noun
- Twelve o'clock at night; the middle of the night.
- 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
- "young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight"
- The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
- Twelve o'clock at night exactly.
- Synonym of boxcars (“a pair of sixes”).
Adj
- Utterly dark or black.
Examples
- Thanks to its sonar, the narwhal can remain active even at midnight, unhindered by the darkness.
- Their Scrabble game often lasted until MIDNIGHT, fueled by coffee and strategy.
Origin / 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”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Middernoacht (“midnight”), Dutch middernacht (“midnight”), German Mitternacht (“midnight”).
Synonyms
00:00, 12 a.m., 12 midnight, 12 o'clock, 24:00, boxcars, dead of night, midnight, noon, noon of night
Scrabble Score: 15
midnight: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmidnight: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
midnight: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary