midnight

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 [ˈmɪd̚naɪt]|[ˈmɪd̚(ˌ)nɑjt]|[ˈmɪ̞d̚nʌjt]    美 [ˈmɪd̚ˌnɐɪt]|[ˈmɪ̝d̚(ˌ)nɑɪt]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise. countable,uncountable
    — Thanks to its sonar, the narwhal can remain active even at midnight, unhindered by the darkness.
  2. Twelve o'clock at night exactly. countable,uncountable
    — She twisted her hands behind her; but all the knots held good! / She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood! / They stretched and strained in the darkness, and the hours crawled by like years, / Till, now, on the stroke of midnight, / Cold, on the stroke of midnight, / The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!
  3. Synonym of boxcars (“a pair of sixes”). countable,uncountable
形容词 adj.
  1. Utterly dark or black. not-comparable,poetic
    — Free and falling, his midnight hair flowed out all around us like a silk canopy.

词形变化

midnights plural

词汇关系

近义词
00:00 12 o'clock 12 midnight 12 a.m. 24:00 dead of night midnight noon noon of night
反义词
midday
上位词
nighttime
衍生词
burn the midnight oil midnight appointment midnight blue midnight cactus midnight chow midnight feast midnight horror midnight in a coal mine midnightish midnightly midnight mass midnight movie midnight oil midnight regulation midnight run midnight snack midnight sun midnight zone postmidnight post-midnight premidnight
相关词
early morning dawn first light postdawn morning afternoon evening dusk night
部分词
midnight feast midnight mass midnight snack

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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”).
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