Midnight is used to describe something which happens or appears at midnight or in the middle of the night. It is totally out of the question to postpone the midnight deadline
12: 00 a m -- " the a m designation begins the next day at exactly 12 o'clock midnight " (228)
If someone is burning the midnight oil, they are staying up very late in order to study or do some other work. Chris is asleep after burning the midnight oil trying to finish his article. 12 o'clock at night midday at midnight
Being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night; as, midnight studies; midnight gloom
Midnight is twelve o'clock in the middle of the night. It was well after midnight by the time Anne returned to her apartment
Can be defined as 00: 00 hours, the beginning of the day or as 24: 00 hours, the end of the preceding day Where not specified the standard convention is that midnight means 24: 00 hours