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dead of night

dead of night noun: middle of the night.

Noun

dead of night

  1. (idiomatic) Middle of the night.
    • Write loyal cantons of contemnèd love / And sing them loud even in the dead of night.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • I was feeling just as I had felt in the old Malvern House epoch when I used to sneak down to [the schoolmaster]'s study at dead of night in quest of the biscuits he kept there in a tin on his desk, and there came back to me the memory of the occasion when, not letting a twig snap beneath my feet, I...1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII
    Synonyms:
    deep of night, 00:00, 12 o'clock, 12 midnight, 12 a.m., 24:00, midnight, noon, noon of night

dead of night meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Telugu

dead of night in Tamil

நல்லசாமம், கள்ளச்சாமம்

dead of night in Bengali

রাতের মধ্যভাগ, গভীর রাত্রি

dead of night in Telugu

the dead of night, midnight
అపరాత్రి aparātri

Synonyms of dead of night

Forms of dead of night

alternative formdead of the night

Questions about dead of night

What does dead of night mean?
Dead of night means middle of the night.
What is dead of night in Tamil?
Dead of night in Tamil is நல்லசாமம், கள்ளச்சாமம். See Dead of night meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dead of night?
Dead of night is a noun.

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  8. dead oil
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dead of night (page history and authors); dead of night (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Dead of night (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); అపరాత్రి (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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