Twelve o'clock at night exactly.
Used in a Sentence
midnight
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for midnight.
Editorial note
Coded essentially all day, struggled with a bug for hours, and was still on a caffeine high past midnight.
Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
Twelve o'clock at night exactly.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of midnight gathered in one view.
The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
(dice games) Synonym of boxcars (“a pair of sixes”).
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for midnight.
noun
Twelve o'clock at night exactly.
noun
The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
noun
(dice games) Synonym of boxcars (“a pair of sixes”).
adjective
(poetic) Utterly dark or black.
Example sentences
Coded essentially all day, struggled with a bug for hours, and was still on a caffeine high past midnight.
Their status page just shows that message each day at midnight to delineate the start of a new day.
It's odd to be sitting outside at midnight at 90 degrees and 30% humidity, which feels like midwest weather.
Works better for me than burning the midnight oil (which works too but probably isn't as healthy).
Even if you usually stay up until 3 am you'll get very sleepy at midnight and you'll wake up at 8.
Flight cancelled, check-in at midnight, parking, need an ironing board, want to be left alone - no problem.
In most other outer boroughs, getting home after midnight is either very expensive (taxi/minicab, including Uber) or very slow (two or more night buses).
Can't believe I put off buying them for so long, I wear them everywhere, even working at home at midnight.
I need to be asleep by midnight or 1am if I want any chance of feeling okay the next day.
I regularly go to sleep after midnight and get up before 6 (young children etc).
I wake up at 8, but if I have my last mean at 6 PM then I will be practically unable to fall asleep at midnight from the hunger.
I back up my entire main computer to JungleDisk (automatic incremental backup every midnight).
Quote examples
Businesses that close after midnight may give their closing time as "2600".
In fact just yesterday I was thinking about it makes much more sense to group activities that happen after midnight with the "previous" day.
Proper noun examples
My second shift starts 8pm/9pm to Midnight/1am 6.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use midnight in a sentence?
Coded essentially all day, struggled with a bug for hours, and was still on a caffeine high past midnight.
What does midnight mean?
Twelve o'clock at night exactly.
What part of speech is midnight?
midnight is commonly used as noun, adjective.