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night

DEFINITIONS OF: night

1

n the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

Synonyms:
dark, nighttime
Antonyms:
day, daylight, daytime
the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
Types:
weeknight
any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday
wedding night
the night after the wedding when bride and groom sleep together
Type of:
period, period of time, time period
an amount of time

n the time between sunset and midnight

“he watched television every night”
Type of:
period, period of time, time period
an amount of time

n the period spent sleeping

“I had a restless night”
Type of:
period, period of time, time period
an amount of time

n the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit

“three nights later he collapsed”
Type of:
time unit, unit of time
a unit for measuring time periods

n a shortening of nightfall

“they worked from morning to night”
Type of:
crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight
the time of day immediately following sunset

n a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom

Type of:
period, period of time, time period
an amount of time

n darkness

“it vanished into the night”
Type of:
dark, darkness
absence of light or illumination
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