Night definition
The hours between around 7 or 8 PM and 5 or 6 AM are an example of night.
The night nurse.
Worked from morning to night.
Either late Thursday night or early Friday morning.
Night baseball.
Christmas night.
Vanished into the night.
For two nights running.
A rainy night.
A night at the opera.
Spent the night at a motel.
Had a restless night.
- A period of intellectual or moral degeneration.
- A time of grief.
- Death.
A night on the town.
We stayed at the Hilton for five nights.
Night all! Thanks for a great evening!
The night air.
A night light.
Night prowlers.
Parents' Night at school.
- to celebrate all or much of the night
- every night or for many successive nights
- continuously or continually
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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