What is the difference between postmidnight and midnight?
postmidnight | midnight | Derived terms |
After midnight, but generally before dawn
*{{quote-news, 2007, January 1, John F. Burns, U.S. Questioned Iraq on the Rush to Hang Hussein, New York Times, url=
, passage=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. }} The middle of the night; 12:00 am; on a 12-hour clock, 12:00 at night; on a 24-hour clock, 00:00.
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The middle of the night: the moment of time, which is equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
Postmidnight is a derived term of midnight.
As a adjective postmidnight
is after midnight, but generally before dawn.As a noun midnight is
the middle of the night; 12:00 am; on a 12-hour clock, 12:00 at night; on a 24-hour clock, 00:00.postmidnight
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Adjective
(-)midnight
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(wikipedia midnight)Noun
(en noun)- "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!
