midnight
midnight is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Shak.
- 2.Being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night; as, midnight studies; midnight gloom. "Midnight shout and revelry." Milton.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- afternoon
- arch
- atramentous
- autumn
- autumnal
- bedtime
- black
- blackamoor
- blacken
- blackness
- blot
- blotch
- buck
- candlelight
- charcoal
- chiaroscuro
- close
- coal
- coal-black
- color
- coon
- crow
- curfew
- dark
- darken
- darkness
- day
- dead
- decline
- denigrate
- derogatory
- dewy
- dingy
- down
- dusk
- dusky
- dye
- ebon
- ebony
- eleventh
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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