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night definition

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]
  2. the evening following a specified day Christmas night
  3. the darkness of night
  4. 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

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night Synonyms

night

n.

  1. The diurnal dark period

    evening, from dusk to dawn, nightfall, twilight, eventide, nighttime, bedtime, midnight, before dawn, the dark hours, obscurity, witching hour, dead of night.

  2. The dark

    blackness, duskiness, gloom; see darkness 1.

make a night of it*

enjoy, have fun, party; see celebrate 3.


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night Usage Examples

Possessives

  • sleep: Get a good night's sleep... Baby's development - massage or Mozart?

Converse of object

  • spend: I will be coy on exactly where I spent the night.

Adjective modifier

  • last: Last night 's gig wasn't them at their best.

Modifies a noun

  • sky: This page, updated monthly, will let you know some of the things that you can look out for in the night sky.

Noun used with modifier

  • hen: You only have your hen night once, why risk it, put in the hands of the Hen night specialists, the Dreamboys.
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night quotes

Por todos los senderos de la noche han venido a llorar en mi lecho. ‚Fueron tantos, son tantos! Yo no se¤   cua¤  les viven, yo no se¤   cua¤  l ha muerto. Me llorare¤   a m |¤ misma para llorarlos todos. They have come from all of night's pathways to cry in my bed. They were so many, they are so many! I don't know who lives, I don't know who has died. I'll cry for myself so that I can cry for all.

-Agustini, Delmira

The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

-Amis, Sir Kingsley

Et toi mon coeur pourquoi bats-tu Comme un guetteur me¤  lancolique J'observe la nuit et la mort. And you my heart why do you pound Like some melancholy watchman I watch the night and death.

-Kostrowitzki

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