Meaning of dead of night | Babel Free
Equivalents
Deutsch
but see mitten in der Nacht
Galego
noite pecha
Italiano
notte fonda
Nederlands
holst van de nacht
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
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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