Definition
Middle of the night.
In Context
- "Write loyal cantons of contemnèd love / And sing them loud even in the dead of night."
- "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."
- "Blackbird singing in the dead of night / Take these broken wings and learn to fly"
Also Said As
- deep of night
- 00:00
- 12 o'clock
- 12 midnight
- 12 a.m.
- 24:00
- dead of night
- midnight
- noon
- noon of night