midnight

Betekenis (Engels)

1. The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
2. Twelve o'clock at night exactly.
3. Synonym of boxcars (“a pair of sixes”)

dead of night

depth of night

middle of the night

twelve o’clock

black of night

night time

thick darkness

noon-time

12 am

12:00 a.m.

minuit

Nighthaw

Frekwensie

Koppelteken as

mid‧night

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈmɪdnʌɪt/

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”).