12 o'clock vs midnight

12 o'clock

midnight

noun
  • Twelve o'clock at night exactly. 

  • Synonym of boxcars (“a pair of sixes”) 

  • The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise. 

adj
  • Utterly dark or black. 

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