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midnight
English
Etymology
From Middle English midnight, midnyght, mydnyght, (also as middelni?te), from Old English midniht, middeniht, middeneaht, (also as midderneaht and middelniht), from Proto-Germanic *midjanahts (“midnight”), equivalent to mid- +? night. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Midnoacht (“midnight”), Old High German mittinaht (“midnight”), Danish midnat (“midnight”), Swedish midnatt (“midnight”), Icelandic miðnætti (“midnight”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Middernoacht (“midnight”), Dutch middernacht (“midnight”), German Mitternacht (“midnight”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?dn??t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?d?na?t/
- Hyphenation: mid?night
Noun
midnight (countable and uncountable, plural midnights)
- The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
- 12 o'clock at night exactly.
- Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- "She twisted her hands behind her;
- but all the knots held good!
- She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood!
- They stretched and strained in the darkness,
- and the hours crawled by like years,
- Till, now, on the stroke of midnight,
- Cold, on the stroke of midnight,
- The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!
- Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
Synonyms
- (12 o'clock at night): 12 am; 00:00, 12 a.m. (sometimes proscribed), 12 midnight; see also Thesaurus:midnight
Antonyms
- noon, midday
Derived terms
- burn the midnight oil
- midnight regulation
- midnight sun
- postmidnight
Translations
Adjective
midnight (not comparable)
- (poetic) Utterly dark or black.
See also
- (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight (Category: en:Times of day)
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taxonomy
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
- (US) IPA(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
- Rhymes: -?n?mi
Noun
taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)
- The science or the technique used to make a classification.
- A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
- (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
Synonyms
- taxonomics
- (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy
Coordinate terms
- nomenclature
- ontology
Derived terms
Translations
taxonomy From the web:
- what taxonomy means
- what taxonomy are humans
- what taxonomy do humans belong to
- what taxonomy is not a type of taxonomy
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