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# midnight

«midnight» in Mova's school dictionary: **twelve o'clock at night, the moment when one day ends and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (midnight — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Midnight is twelve o'clock at night, the moment when one day ends and the next one begins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midnight/#m1)

2) Midnight can mean the middle of the night, a very late hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midnight/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and time lessons, midnight is 12:00 a.m. or 00:00 on the 24-hour clock; noon (midday) is 12:00 p.m. or 12:00. From midnight to noon is 12 hours. In everyday life, people stay up until midnight on New Year's Eve. In stories, midnight is a magical or spooky time — in Cinderella the magic ends at midnight. Phrases: «at midnight», «before midnight», «past midnight», «midnight feast», «burn the midnight oil» (work late into the night), «midnight blue».

### examples

- Cinderella had to leave the ball before midnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midnight/#x1)
- We stayed up until midnight on New Year's Eve. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midnight/#x2)
- Midnight is 00:00 on the 24-hour clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midnight/#x3)
- The clock struck twelve at midnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midnight/#x4)
- We had a midnight feast at the sleepover. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midnight/#x5)
- It's past midnight; go to sleep! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midnight/#x6)
- From midnight to 6 a.m. is six hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midnight/#x7)
- The owl hooted in the middle of the night, just after midnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midnight/#x8)
- At midnight the cottage door opened. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midnight/#x9)

### note

Uncountable: «at midnight», not «at the midnight». Midnight is 12 a.m.; noon is 12 p.m. — these are easy to mix up. In time problems, crossing midnight means the date changes: 11 p.m. + 2 hours = 1 a.m. the next day.

### In the corpora

- [Picture a city garden at midnight: a fox trots past the bins and somewhere a rabbit freezes, then zigzags away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/3/)
- [He played Minecraft until midnight and felt like a spy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/418-sleep-and-school-mornings/1/)
- [At midnight at a sleepover, Chloe gets homesick and wants to go home.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/13/)
- [Sharing a room means rows and midnight laughs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room/3/)
- [Sharing a room brings rows about noise, mess and lights, and also midnight laughs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room/30/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «midnight» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/midnight/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.