English search results for: midnight

#1

noun

  • declension: 5th declension
  • gender: common

Definitions:

  1. (24 hours from midnight)
  2. (sunlit hours)
  3. day
  4. daylight
  5. open sky
  6. weather
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation

Definitions:

  1. burn the midnight oil over, spend the night working
  2. compose at night
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#3

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: deponent

Definitions:

  1. burn the midnight oil over, spend the night working
  2. compose at night
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#4

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. midnight oil
  2. oil lamp
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#5

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation

Definitions:

  1. make or produce at night
  2. work by lamp-light, "burn the midnight oil"
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#6

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. "burning the midnight oil"
  2. night work
  3. nocturnal study
  4. work-by-nightlamp
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)