Night definition
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
Working during the night.
The night nurse.
adjective
Nightfall.
Worked from morning to night.
noun
The period between dusk and midnight of a given day.
Either late Thursday night or early Friday morning.
noun
Occurring after dark.
Night baseball.
adjective
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The evening following a specified day.
Christmas night.
noun
The darkness of night.
noun
Darkness.
Vanished into the night.
noun
The period between sunset and sunrise, especially the hours of darkness.
noun
This period considered as a unit of time.
For two nights running.
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This period considered from its conditions.
A rainy night.
noun
The period between evening and bedtime.
noun
This period considered from its activities.
A night at the opera.
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The period between bedtime and morning.
Spent the night at a motel.
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One's sleep during this period.
Had a restless night.
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A time or condition of gloom, obscurity, ignorance, or despair.
noun
A time or condition marked by absence of moral or ethical values.
noun
Any period or condition of darkness or gloom.
- A period of intellectual or moral degeneration.
- A time of grief.
- Death.
noun
The period from sunset to sunrise.
noun
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]
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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
Of or relating to the night.
The night air.
adjective
Intended for use at night.
A night light.
adjective
Active chiefly at night.
Night prowlers.
adjective
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This period set aside for a specific purpose.
Parents' Night at school.
noun
make a night of it
- to celebrate all or much of the night
idiom
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, niȝt, 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 νύχτα (nýchta, “night").
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