twelve o'clock

Noun

 * 1)  The start of the thirteenth hour of the day; noon (noontime); 12:00 p.m. (12:00).
 * The next train comes at twelve o'clock (= "The next train comes at noon").
 * 1)  The start of the first hour of the day; midnight; 12:00 a.m. (00:00).
 * The bar closes at twelve o'clock (= "The bar closes at midnight").
 * 1)  A position straight ahead (horizontal clock orientation) or above (vertical clock orientation)
 * We've got a bogey at twelve o'clock (= "We've got a bogey straight in front of us").

Usage notes
The concepts of twelve o'clock high and have similar-sounding names but differ in meaning and in derivation. The first means "straight ahead and above" and the second means "exactly noon, when the sun is higher in the sky than at any other moment of the day".

Translations

 * Finnish: kaksitoista (päivällä), kello kaksitoista (päivällä)
 * French: douze heures
 * German: zwölf Uhr
 * Polish:
 * Russian: двена́дцать часо́в
 * Spanish: las doce
 * Swedish: klockan tolv
 * Ukrainian: двана́дцята годи́на


 * Arabic:
 * Catalan: les dotze
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Ewe:
 * Finnish: kaksitoista (yöllä), kello kaksitoista (yöllä)
 * French: douze heures
 * Galician:
 * German: zwölf Uhr
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin: hora duodecima
 * Navajo:
 * Ojibwe:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: doze horas
 * Russian: двена́дцать часо́в
 * Spanish: las doce
 * Swedish: klockan tolv,
 * Ukrainian: двана́дцята годи́на
 * Vietnamese: