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dead of night en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) Middle of the night.
   • Blackbird singing in the dead of night / Take these broken wings and learn to fly 1968, “Blackbird”, in Paul McCartney (lyrics), The Beatles, performed by The Beatles:
   • Write loyal cantons of contemnèd love / And sing them loud even in the dead of night. c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
   • I was feeling just as I had felt in the old Malvern House epoch when I used to sneak down to [the schoolmaster]'s study at dead of night in quest of the biscuits he kept there in a tin on his desk, and there came back to me the memory of the occasion when, not letting a twig snap beneath my feet, I had entered his sanctum in pyjamas and a dressing-gown, to find him seated in his chair, tucking into the biscuits himself. 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII:

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Synonyms

00:00 · dead of night · 12 midnight · 12 o'clock · 12 a.m. · 24:00 · noon · deep of night · noon of night · midnight

Translations (17)

it notte fonda (middle of the night) · lv dziļa nakts (middle of the night) · fi yösydän (middle of the night) · ga uair mharbh na hoíche (middle of the night) · hu éjnek évada (middle of the night) · fi sydänyö (middle of the night) · es plena noche (middle of the night) · gl noite pecha (middle of the night) · de but see mitten in der Nacht (middle of the night) · es noche cerrada (middle of the night) · pt noite morta (middle of the night) · nl holst van de nacht (middle of the night) · is but see um miðja nótt (middle of the night) · pt calada da noite (middle of the night) · tr gecenin körü (middle of the night) · pl środek nocy (middle of the night) · mk глува доба (middle of the night)