Thesaurus:midnight
Appearance
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: the start and end of the day; the middle of the night
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- 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
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]Meronyms
[edit]- midnight feast (UK)
- midnight mass
- midnight snack (US)
Holonyms
[edit]Comeronyms
[edit]- early morning [⇒ thesaurus]
- dawn [⇒ thesaurus]
- first light
- postdawn
- morning [⇒ thesaurus]
- midday [⇒ thesaurus]
- afternoon [⇒ thesaurus]
- evening [⇒ thesaurus]
- dusk [⇒ thesaurus]
- night
Further reading
[edit]- “126. evening” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “midnight” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.