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(n)
The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
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The time of day between afternoon and night.
(countable) The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
A centre, midpoint.
(location, online gaming, slang) The middle of the battlefield.
A group of twelve items.
(frequently figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.
(military, nautical) A soldier, normally a member of a marine corps, trained to serve on board or from a ship.
A surname.
(idiomatic) Middle of the night.
(adj)
Absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch.
Synonym of H-hour.
(colloquial) The very early morning; the early morning hours; the nighttime hours following midnight, when most people are asleep.
Alternative spelling of midnight. [The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.]
The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.
The beginning of the day; the first moment of daylight.
The close of the day; the coming of night.
Noon; twelve o'clock during the day.
Initialism of Master of Arts. [A postgraduate degree usually in a non-science subject.]
The early part of the day, especially from midnight to noon.
(uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
(US) The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.
(now chiefly US) Sunset.
The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.
Near the end of a period of time.
(music) Abbreviation of palm muting. [The action of palm muting an instrument while playing.]
During which no phase of the Moon is visible to provide light, whether because of cloud cover or because of a new moon.
The nighttime of the current day or date; this night.
The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night.
The middle of the night; dead of night.
(poetic) The middle part of the day or night.
The middle of the evening.
An electronic message, especially one sent by cell phone, involving sexual language or images.
Midday; noon.
(poetic, archaic) midnight
noontide; noon; the middle of the day.
The time of daylight; the time between sunrise and sunset.
(In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the seventh hour of the day; 6:00 a.m. (06:00).
The middle of winter.
The period in which the sun is 6°–12° below the horizon in the morning and evening.
The time of dusk.
Alternative form of nighttime. [The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night.]
(In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the sixth hour of the day; 5:00 a.m. (05:00).
Dusk; twilight.
The time of noon.
Nightfall, the point at which night begins.
The full sunlight that occurs at noon.
The period in which the sun is between 12° and 18° below the horizon in the morning and evening.
(In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the thirteenth hour of the day; noon (noontime); 12:00 p.m. (12:00).
The period around the summer solstice; around June 21st in the northern hemisphere.
The middle of the morning.
(In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the twelfth hour of the day; 11:00 a.m. (11:00).
The time of day or night when the moon begins to rise over the horizon.
(rare or dialectal) The period between dusk and nightfall; twilight.
(countable, computing) The property of a timestamp of being either a.m. or p.m.
(Scotland) The evening time, between twilight and bedtime.
The light of evening; twilight.
Pronunciation spelling of night. [(countable) The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.]
(informal) The wee hours.
A unit of time defined as ¹⁄₁₂ of a day's daylight or nighttime, varying according to season, latitude, and local weather.
(UK, dialectal) A light meal, particularly in the afternoon.
The period in which the sun is less than 6° below the horizon in the morning and evening.
noon; midday
Informal spelling of night. [(countable) The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.]
The middle part of a nightmare, by implication the scariest part, with no end in prospect; the state of being in a nightmare.
(modern usage) The statutory time as designated by civilian authorities, generally a standard time in a time zone at a fixed offset from UTC.
(In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the tenth hour of the day; 9:00 a.m. (09:00).
The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm.
The light of dusk.
The time past mean noon of a particular day, reckoned on to twenty-four hours in mean time.
nighttime
Noon.
The natural light that is ambient in daytime, being mostly sunlight (both direct and indirect, on either sunny days or cloudy days).
(In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the eleventh hour of the day; 10:00 a.m. (10:00).
(colloquial) Any time close to noon; midday or thereabouts.
The middle of the afternoon, normally between 2 and 4 pm.
The middle of the week.
The time at (or very close to) half the next hour of time.
(idiomatic) A time, set out in advance, at which an important decision is to be made or a nemesis is to be confronted.
Dinnertime, the hour in which the dinner meal takes place.
(In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the third hour of the day; 2:00 a.m. (02:00).
(In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the ninth hour of the day; 8:00 a.m. (08:00).
(In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the fifth hour of the day; 4:00 a.m. (04:00).
(literary) Midday, noon.
(timekeeping, historical, biblical) In Antiquity, one of four divisions of the night (each equivalent to three hours).
Partial or near darkness, dimness, twilight.