night

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The starry night sky.

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.

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night

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]
the evening following a specified day: Christmas night
the darkness of night
any period or condition of darkness or gloom; specif.,
1. a period of intellectual or moral degeneration
2. a time of grief
3. death

Origin of night

Middle English niht from OE, akin to German nacht from Indo-European base an unverified form nekwt-, an unverified form nokwt- from source Classical Greek nyx (gen. nyktos), Classical Latin nox (gen. noctis), night

of, for, or at night
active, working, or in use at night

night Idioms

make a night of it

to celebrate all or much of the night

night after night

every night or for many successive nights

night and day

continuously or continually

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night

noun

a. The period between sunset and sunrise, especially the hours of darkness.
b. This period considered as a unit of time: for two nights running.
c. This period considered from its conditions: a rainy night.
The period between dusk and midnight of a given day: either late Thursday night or early Friday morning.
a. The period between evening and bedtime.
b. This period considered from its activities: a night at the opera.
c. This period set aside for a specific purpose: Parents' Night at school.
a. The period between bedtime and morning: spent the night at a motel.
b. One's sleep during this period: had a restless night.
Nightfall: worked from morning to night.
Darkness: vanished into the night.
a. A time or condition of gloom, obscurity, ignorance, or despair: “In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning” ( F. Scott Fitzgerald )
b. A time or condition marked by absence of moral or ethical values: “He never would have let us go untroubled into the night of private greed” ( Anthony Lewis )

adjective

Of or relating to the night: the night air.
Intended for use at night: a night light.
Working during the night: the night nurse.
Active chiefly at night: night prowlers.
Occurring after dark: night baseball.

Origin of night

Middle English from Old English niht ; see nek^w-t- in Indo-European roots.

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night

See also also darkness. achluphobia an abnormal fear of darkness. Also called scotophobia. noctimania an abnormal love of the night. noctivagation the act of walking or wandering at night. —noctivagant, noctivagous, adj. nyctalopia night-blindness. sciophobia an abnormal fear of shadows. scotophobia achluphobia.

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Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural nights)

(countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
How do you sleep at night when you attack your kids like that!?
(countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
a night on the town
(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.
(uncountable) Nightfall.
from noon till night
(uncountable) Darkness.
The cat disappeared into the night.
(uncountable) A dark blue colour, midnight blue.

Interjection

Short for good night
Night all! Thanks for a great evening!

Verb

(third-person singular simple present nights, present participle nighting, simple past and past participle nighted)

To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.

Anagrams

thing, Thing

Origin

From Middle English night, nyght, niÈt, naht, from Old English niht, neht, nyht, neaht, nÃ¦ht (“night"), from Proto-Germanic *nahts (“night"), from Proto-Indo-European *nÃ³kÊ·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 nÃ³tt (“night"), Latin nox (“night"), Greek Î½ÏÏ‡Ï„Î± (nÃ½chta, “night").