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[ noun ] 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
Examples "young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight" Used in print (The Atlanta Constitution...)It was marked by controversy , anonymous midnight phone_calls and veiled threats of violence . (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday , without an official word to anybody , and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across_the_nation to Reno , Nev. , where his wife , former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe_Ann_Olsen , awaited . (J. F. Vedder, "Micrometeorites", in Francis S. J...)Ninety per_cent of the 153 recorded impacts occurred between midnight and noon , and from day to day the variation of the rate was as much as an order_of_magnitude . (Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)Before midnight he speeded his heart , resumed normal breathing , ran_down his check_list , uncurled and sat_up . |
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