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night (nīt)

noun

    1. the period from sunset to sunrise
    2. the period of actual darkness after sunset and before sunrise; also, a part of this period before bedtime [a night at the opera] or the part between bedtime and morning [a sleepless night]
  1. the evening following a specified day Christmas night
  2. the darkness of night
  3. any period or condition of darkness or gloom; specif.,
    1. a period of intellectual or moral degeneration
    2. a time of grief
    3. death

Etymology: ME niht < OE, akin to Ger nacht < IE base *nekwt-, *nokwt- > Gr nyx (gen. nyktos), L nox (gen. noctis), night

adjective

  1. of, for, or at night
  2. active, working, or in use at night
night Idioms

make a night of it

to celebrate all or most of the night

night after night

every night or for many successive nights

night and day

continuously or continually

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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