noun [U]
1 12 o'clock at night:
They had to leave at midnight. * on the stroke of midnight / shortly after midnight * She heard the clock strike midnight. * Let's have a midnight feast tonight (= a secret meal that children like to have in the middle of the night). * We have to catch the midnight train.
2 (especially AmE) = MIDNIGHTBLUE
IDIOMS see BURNv., FLITn.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for midnight is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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