postmidnight

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Etymology

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From post- +‎ midnight.

Adjective

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postmidnight (not comparable)

  1. After midnight, but before dawn.
    Synonyms: wee hour (attributive); see also Thesaurus:early morning
    Near-synonym: predawn
    • 2007 January 1, John F. Burns, “U.S. Questioned Iraq on the Rush to Hang Hussein”, in New York Times:
      Hussein's being taken to his execution from his cell in an American military detention center in the postmidnight chill of Saturday had a surreal and even cinematic quality.
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