postmidnight
adjEtymology From post- + midnight.
1
After midnight, but before dawn.
- Near-synonym: predawn
- 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.2007 January 1, John F. Burns, “U.S. Questioned Iraq on the Rush to Hang Hussein”, in New York Times:
- Synonyms
- wee hours, small hours, wee small hours, early hours