noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
midnight blue
midnight sun
morning/evening/midnight etc Mass
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Will I see you at morning Mass?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
past
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It is past midnight in down town Tegucigalpa, and it's time to go home.
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It was past midnight when Lisa came in.
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It fills us with a deep warmth that will last past midnight .
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After a long time she looked at her bedside clock and saw that it was past midnight .
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When they got to St-Jean it was only a little past midnight and the cafes were still open.
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I couldn't reach the road by half past midnight .
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The last train was half past midnight .
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It was late, past midnight .
■ NOUN
feast
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Let's have a midnight feast tonight, she said: a secret party.
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Big Ronnie was up and about and having a midnight feast .
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When it is time to eat, pretend it is a midnight feast and have the food in one of the bedrooms.
mass
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It's useful if people feel ill during services or if I want to rest before midnight Mass .
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Apparently, Clare was able to watch midnight mass from her death-bed, though many walls should have made this impossible.
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The main celebrations were the midnight mass , the Christmas eve supper and the crib building competition.
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Then there are charades, cards and midnight mass at Sandringham church.
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Tonight she will attend the midnight mass in the tiny church in Great Brington.
monday
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Wilson had until midnight Monday to sign or veto everything sent to him by the Legislature last session.
oil
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Ingrid and other loyal friends spent long hours burning the midnight oil with her when it came to the final typing.
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Grading students for their individual exams and individual term papers may reward a certain kind of midnight oil burning.
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Five worlds split into several sections is certainly enough to keep you burning the midnight oil .
sun
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Camping high, between the huts, we enjoyed insect-freeing breezes and spectacular night views of the midnight sun .
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The best time to visit is in June, the time of the midnight sun .
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It was the first time that I had experienced the midnight sun .
train
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Chapman caught the midnight train to Plymouth and the deal was settled.
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And by the time we got the all clear, the midnight train had gone, too.
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The midnight train to Cornwall, silently waiting.
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There was the 9.15 and the 10.07, and the midnight train that sometimes woke them from their dreams.
■ VERB
arrive
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Although he arrived around midnight , the streets were lined with thousands who cheered and waved as his limousine sped by.
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The passenger and freight vessel will leave Shetland at 11am on Saturday, arriving at Bergen at midnight .
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Never again would the Galway mail arrive there in its midnight glory.
begin
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The alert began shortly after midnight .
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The executions began at midnight on Saturday and were completed six and a half hours later.
burn
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Ingrid and other loyal friends spent long hours burning the midnight oil with her when it came to the final typing.
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Five worlds split into several sections is certainly enough to keep you burning the midnight oil.
expire
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The offer expired at midnight yesterday as scheduled.
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The bills would replace a temporary spending bill that expires at midnight Friday.
go
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I had gone to bed about midnight .
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He seldom went to bed before midnight , and then often read the plays of Corneille till 2 a.m.
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Campaign meetings went until midnight every night for a month.
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You actually go on after midnight .
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Williams told police she went home alone at midnight , an hour and a half before the shooting.
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The ban went into effect at midnight , Aug. 25, 1988, Higgins said.
leave
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Deputies came in at about 5 a.m. on Tuesday and left at about midnight .
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On one such passage we left Stornoway at midnight heading for Lochinver in Sutherland.
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Often, delayed by the cleaning up, she did not leave the premises until midnight .
wait
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At half-past eleven the house was so quiet they decided not to wait until midnight .
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When the power arrived at last on November 16, the mayor waited until shortly after midnight before pulling the switch.
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Back at the Barracks Maxim had to wait until after midnight before he had the officers' mess video machine to himself.
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Or had the guests waited until midnight , the witching hour, before turning into swine?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
burn the midnight oil
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Lawmakers were burning the midnight oil last night, as the debate continued.
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Five worlds split into several sections is certainly enough to keep you burning the midnight oil.
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Ingrid and other loyal friends spent long hours burning the midnight oil with her when it came to the final typing.
the midnight sun
this side of Christmas/midnight etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The restaurant is open from 5 p.m. to midnight every day.
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We always go to midnight mass on Christmas Eve.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About midnight , the first Federal units began withdrawing from the field.
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In other years, he had often felt a great fatigue after the midnight service.
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She forgot it was midnight and this was a respectable couple.
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Sometimes these domino sessions in the canteen would last from 6.30 p.m. until midnight .
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Troops were deployed in Kwangju at midnight on May 17, just as Chun was declaring nationwide martial law.