Definitions for midnight
ˈmɪdˌnaɪtmid·night

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. midnight(noun)

   12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night

   "young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. midnight(Noun)

   The middle of the night; 12:00 am; on a 12-hour clock, 12:00 at night; on a 24-hour clock, 00:00.

2. midnight(Noun)

   The middle of the night: the moment of time, which is equidistant between sunset and sunrise.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Midnight(noun)

   the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night

   Etymology: [AS. midniht.]

2. Midnight(adj)

   being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night; as, midnight studies; midnight gloom

   Etymology: [AS. midniht.]

Freebase(4.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Midnight

   Midnight is the transition time period from one day to the next: the moment when the date changes. In ancient Roman timekeeping, midnight was halfway between sunset and sunrise, varying according to the seasons. Solar midnight is that time opposite of solar noon, when the sun is closest to nadir and the night is equidistant from dusk and dawn. Due to the advent of time zones, which make time identical across a range of meridians, and daylight saving time, it rarely coincides with midnight on a clock. Solar midnight is dependent on latitude and time of the year rather than on a time zone. In the northern hemisphere, "midnight" had an ancient geographic association with "north". Modern Polish and Ukrainian preserve this association with their words for "midnight", which also means "north".

The Roycroft Dictionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. midnight

   1. The Pole of the hours; a pincushion on which sparkle all the seconds of a day; the keel of the good ship Tomorrow. 2. A chimney whence the dreams of today issue in smoke.

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1. midnight

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'midnight' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4808

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'midnight' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4275

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'midnight' in Nouns Frequency: #1942

How to pronounce midnight?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

How to say midnight in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of midnight in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of midnight in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of midnight in a Sentence

1. State John Kerry:

   We are not going to sit at the negotiating table forever. We also recognize that we shouldn't get up and leave simply because the clock strikes midnight.

2. Ryan Navales:

   After destroying my family, in and out of jail, in and out of treatment, I was living on the streets and doing what people have to do on the streets to support a really gnarly heroin habit, in August of 2011, I was brought to the Midnight Mission homeless.

3. Tom Tillotson:

   The whole point of Dixville voting Is not to get publicity, the whole point is to encourage people to get out and voteto lead by example. Heres a little town where a hundred percent of the population gets up at midnight. Thats not easy.

4. Aline Brosh McKenna:

   I just think a lot of the ways things are run are just terribly anti-family, it's one of those subtle things that just selects out women. If we want to include women and their voices and the only way to work on these shows is to prove you're a machismo guy, staying until midnight every night, women are going to opt out of that. Parents are going to opt out of that.

5. Angela Carter:

   Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.

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