Usually means: Very late, absolute darkest hour.
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  1. dead of night: Merriam-Webster
  2. the dead of night: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dead of night: Wiktionary
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▸ noun:  (idiomatic) Middle of the night.

Similar:
dark night, darkmans, o-dark-thirty, 0-dark-hundred, evening, dusktime, weeknight, dawntime, dimmity, one-dog night, more...

Opposite:
dawn, morning, sunrise

Phrases:
dead of the night, more...

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Similar:
dark night, darkmans, o-dark-thirty, 0-dark-hundred, evening, dusktime, weeknight, dawntime, dimmity, one-dog night, more...

Opposite:
dawn, morning, sunrise

Phrases:
dead of the night, more...



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