postmidnight
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English
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]postmidnight (not comparable)
- After midnight, but before dawn.
- Synonyms: wee hour (attributive); see also Thesaurus:early morning
- Near-synonym: predawn
- 2007 January 1, John F. Burns, “U.S. Questioned Iraq on the Rush to Hang Hussein”, in New York Times:
- Hussein's being taken to his execution from his cell in an American military detention center in the postmidnight chill of Saturday had a surreal and even cinematic quality.