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Meaning of dead of night | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Middle of the night.

idiomatic

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Examples

Write loyal cantons of contemnèd love / And sing them loud even in the dead of night.”
“I was feeling just as I had felt in the old Malvern House epoch when I used to sneak down to [the schoolmaster]'s study at dead of night in quest of the biscuits he kept there in a tin on his desk, and there came back to me the memory of the occasion when, not letting a twig snap beneath my feet, I had entered his sanctum in pyjamas and a dressing-gown, to find him seated in his chair, tucking into the biscuits himself.”
Blackbird singing in the dead of night / Take these broken wings and learn to fly

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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