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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

深夜過ぎの

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shinya sugi no

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
After-midnight/ˈæf.tɚˌmɪd.naɪt/
adjectivenounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"私たちは深夜過ぎのカフェでコーヒーを飲んだ。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Occurring or existing during the early hours of the morning after twelve o'clock at night.

    "They stopped at an after-midnight diner for coffee and pie."
As noun
  1. 1

    The time period immediately following midnight.

    "The storm hit us somewhere in the after-midnight."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Formed in late Middle English by combining the preposition 'after' (from Old English 'æfter') with the noun 'midnight' (from Old English 'midniht'). It evolved as a compound descriptor for the early hours of the morning following twelve o'clock at night.

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