midnight
- noun
- A2
- Top 5000
The time in the night when the clock reaches twelve and a new day starts.
She finished the last email just before midnight and went to bed.
I woke up around midnight and could not fall asleep again.
The whole square counted down the final seconds to midnight.
Our neighbours' music was still loud well after midnight.
Common collocations: at midnight · just before midnight · after midnight · by midnight · midnight snack · the stroke of midnight
Part of: Times of day, Days and months