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mdnt.

mdnt. is the abbreviation of midnight.

Meaning of midnight

Noun

midnight (countable and uncountable, plural midnights)

  1. The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
    • Thanks to its sonar, the narwhal can remain active even at midnight, unhindered by the darkness.
    Antonyms:
    noon, midday
  2. Twelve o'clock at night exactly.
    • She twisted her hands behind her; but all the knots held good! / She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood! / They stretched and strained in the darkness, and the hours crawled by like years, / Till, now, on the stroke of midnight, / Cold, on the stroke of midnight, / The...1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 2, stanza IV, pages 50–51
  3. Synonym of boxcars (“a pair of sixes”).
    Synonyms:
    boxcars

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Questions about mdnt.

What is mdnt. the abbreviation of?
Mdnt. is the abbreviation of midnight.

Words near mdnt. in the dictionary

  1. mDNA
  2. mDNAs
  3. MDNI
  4. MDNR
  5. mdnt
  6. mdnt.
  7. MDonough
  8. MDOT
  9. MDOTs
  10. MDP
  11. MDP syndrome

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