midnight hour
Day's first moment
The midnight hour is the time around twelve o'clock at night—the transition from one day to the next.
The phrase carries dramatic or urgent overtones, suggesting a critical moment or deadline: At the midnight hour, the deal finally came together.
In music and literature, it often evokes romance, mystery, or supernatural possibility.
- witchingPerforming magical rites
- darknessTotal absence of light
- lateNot on time
- twelveOne more than eleven
- clockDevice displaying time
stroke · clock strikes twelve · chime · nocturnal · bewitching · stillness · shadows · insomnia · moonlight · quiet · eerie · sleepless · haunting · gospel · soul · lost soul · blues · confession
- hoursone o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock, five o'clock
- New Year poetryholiday poems, Auld Lang Syne, ball drop, champagne toast, toasts
- old time wordsfortnight, twelvemonth, yore, erstwhile, ere
- doomdoomsday, impending doom, doom and gloom, doomed, sense of doom
- Slavic folkloreBaba Yaga, vampire, Ivan, mora, Firebird
time of day
midnight hourhigh noon
Solar zenith, or confrontation
noon · midday · noontime · morning · broad daylight
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