Night meaning
Nightfall.
Worked from morning to night.
noun
Night is the dark period between sunset and sunrise.
The hours between around 7 or 8 PM and 5 or 6 AM are an example of night.
noun
Intended for use at night.
A night light.
adjective
Working during the night.
The night nurse.
adjective
Active chiefly at night.
Night prowlers.
adjective
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Occurring after dark.
Night baseball.
adjective
Of or relating to the night.
The night air.
adjective
The period between dusk and midnight of a given day.
Either late Thursday night or early Friday morning.
noun
Darkness.
Vanished into the night.
noun
The evening following a specified day.
Christmas night.
noun
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The darkness of night.
noun
Any period or condition of darkness or gloom.
- A period of intellectual or moral degeneration.
- A time of grief.
- Death.
noun
Of, for, or at night.
adjective
Active, working, or in use at night.
adjective
(countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
A night on the town.
noun
(countable) A night (part of the days before and after it) spent in a hotel or other accommodation.
We stayed at the Hilton for five nights.
noun
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Short for good night.
Night all! Thanks for a great evening!
interjection
make a night of it
- To celebrate all or much of the night.
idiom
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night after night
- Every night or for many successive nights.
idiom
night and day
- Continuously or continually.
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of night
- Middle English from Old English niht nekw-t- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English night, nyght, niÈt, naht, from Old English niht, neht, nyht, neaht, næht (“night"), from Proto-Germanic *nahts (“night"), from Proto-Indo-European *nókÊ·ts (“night"). Cognate with Scots nicht, neicht (“night"), West Frisian nacht (“night"), Dutch nacht (“night"), Low German Nacht (“night"), German Nacht (“night"), Danish nat (“night"), Swedish natt (“night"), Icelandic nótt (“night"), Latin nox (“night"), Greek νÏχτα (nýchta, “night").
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