MIDNIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does midnight mean? 

• MIDNIGHT (noun)
  The noun MIDNIGHT has 1 sense:

1. 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night

  Familiarity information: MIDNIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDNIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight

Hypernyms ("midnight" is a kind of...):

hour; time of day (clock time)

Holonyms ("midnight" is a part of...):

dark; night; nighttime (the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside)

 Context examples 

It is midnight; the breeze blows fairly, and the watch on deck scarcely stir.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The brief darkness around midnight came and went.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Then we can hardly get there before midnight.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I’ll relieve Louis at the wheel,” he said shortly, “and call upon you to relieve at midnight. Better turn in now and get some sleep.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This morning the man on duty reported to me that a little after midnight he was restless and kept saying his prayers somewhat loudly.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Therefore, it could only have come from a train, and that train, so far as we can trace it, must have passed about midnight on Monday.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is now ten; I must go home and read these documents in quiet; but I shall be back before midnight, when we shall send for the police.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I dare say we shall be all safe at Hartfield before midnight.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It's not only workers burning the midnight oil who are at higher risk.

(High Blood Pressure Liked to Long Hours on Job, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Then the second son was ordered to watch; and at midnight he too fell asleep, and in the morning another apple was gone.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)