postmidnight
English
Etymology
post- + midnight
Adjective
postmidnight (not comparable)
- After midnight, but generally before dawn
- 2007, January 1, “John F. Burns”, in U.S. Questioned Iraq on the Rush to Hang Hussein:
- 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.
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