Thesaurus:midnight
English
Noun
Sense: the start and end of the day; the middle of the night
Synonyms
- 00:00
- 12 o'clock
- 12 midnight
- 12 a.m. (sometimes proscribed)
- 24:00 (ISO 8601)
- dead of night (idiomatic)
- midnight
- noon (obsolete)
- noon of night (poetic, obsolete)
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Meronyms
- midnight feast (UK)
- midnight mass
- midnight snack (US)
Holonyms
Comeronyms
- early morning [⇒ thesaurus]
- dawn [⇒ thesaurus]
- first light
- postdawn
- morning [⇒ thesaurus]
- midday [⇒ thesaurus]
- afternoon [⇒ thesaurus]
- evening [⇒ thesaurus]
- dusk [⇒ thesaurus]
- night
Further reading
- “126. evening” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “midnight” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.