"dead of night" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-dead of night.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} dead of night
  1. (idiomatic) Middle of the night. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Night, Times of day Synonyms: deep of night, midnight, dead of the night Translations (middle of the night): holst van de nacht [neuter] (Dutch), yösydän (Finnish), sydänyö (Finnish), noite pecha [feminine] (Galician), but see mitten in der Nacht (German), éjnek évada (Hungarian), but see um miðja nótt (Icelandic), uair mharbh na hoíche [feminine] (Irish), notte fonda [feminine] (Italian), dziļa nakts [feminine] (Latvian), глува доба (gluva doba) (Macedonian), środek nocy [masculine] (Polish), calada da noite [feminine] (Portuguese), noite morta [feminine] (Portuguese), plena noche [feminine] (Spanish), noche cerrada [feminine] (Spanish), gecenin körü (Turkish)
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