midnite

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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