midnight

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Twelve o'clock at night.

   The party went on until well past midnight.

2. 2
   adj

   Very dark or black, like the night sky.

   Her midnight hair flowed around her shoulders.

From Middle English midnight, from Old English midniht, from Proto-Germanic *midjanahts (“midnight”), equivalent to mid- + night. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Midnoacht (“midnight”), Old High German mittinaht (“midnight”), Danish midnat (“midnight”), Swedish midnatt (“midnight”), Icelandic miðnætti (“midnight”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Middernoacht (“midnight”), Dutch middernacht (“midnight”), German Mitternacht (“midnight”).

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