Thesaurus:midnight

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

• midday    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• nighttime    [⇒ thesaurus]

Meronyms

• midnight feast (UK)
• midnight mass
• midnight snack (US)

Holonyms

• day    [⇒ thesaurus]

Comeronyms

• early morning, dawn, morning, midday, afternoon, evening, dusk, night, midnight

Further reading

• “126. evening” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “midnight” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.