midnight
/ˈmɪd(ˌ)naɪt/ noun A2- 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”).
Plural midnights
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“Because you are not feverish or delirious tonight, but thoroughly awake; midnight is striking, which is the hour murderers choose.”
Midnight struck slowly and sadly; every hour seemed to strike with leaden weight upon the heart of the poor girl.
Valentine was alone; two other clocks, slower than that of Saint-Philippe-du-Roule, struck the hour of midnight from different directions, and excepting the rumbling of a few carriages all was silent.
It also mentioned the hour of the alarm, which was close on to midnight last night.
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