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night

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/ˈnaɪ̯t/
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/ˈnaɪ̯t/ · [ˈnaɪ̯t] · /ˈnɐɪ̯t/ · [ˈnɐɪ̯t] · /ˈnɜɪ̯t/ · [ˈnɜɪ̯t] · /ˈnʌɪ̯t/ · [ˈnʌɪ̯t] · /ˈnəɪ̯t/ · [ˈnəɪ̯t] · /ˈnɑɪ̯t/ · [ˈnɑ̟ɪ̯t] · /ˈnɒɪ̯t/ · [ˈnɒ̈ɪ̯t] · /ˈniːt/ · [ˈniːt]

Definition of night

13 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable)The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
    “Most animals are awake at day and sleep at night.”
    “The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.”
    “Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.”
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noun

  1. (countable)The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
    “Most animals are awake at day and sleep at night.”
    “The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.”
    “Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.”
  2. (countable)The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
  3. (countable)A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
  4. (countable)An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
    “a night on the town”
    “From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.”
  5. (countable)A day, or at least a night.
    “I stayed my friend's house for three nights.”
  6. (uncountable)Nightfall.
    “from noon till night”
  7. (uncountable)Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
    “The cat disappeared into the night.”
  8. (uncountable)A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
  9. (colloquial, countable, uncountable)A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.

intj

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of good night.
    “Night, y'all! Thanks for a great evening!”

verb

  1. (intransitive)To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.
    “So I took seat and ate somewhat of my vivers, my horse also feeding upon his fodder, and we nighted in that spot and next morning I set out[.]”

name

  1. The 92nd sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
  2. (Germanic)The goddess of the night in Heathenry.
    “"In this prayer, Sigdrifa calls upon powers of Nature - Day, Night, Earth - and the gods and goddesses as a group.”
    “Hail to Night and her daughters.”
    “In another story, the Allfather, the original sky god from early Wyrd culture, took Night and her son Day, and gave to each of them a horse and chariot and put them in the sky, so that they should ride around the world every twenty-four hours.”

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Etymology

From Middle English nighte, night, nyght, niȝt, naht, from Old English niht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht (“night”), from Proto-Germanic *nahts (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”). Cognates Cognate with Scots nicht…

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From Middle English nighte, night, nyght, niȝt, naht, from Old English niht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht (“night”), from Proto-Germanic *nahts (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”). Cognates Cognate with Scots nicht (“night”), Yola neeght, nieght, nyeght (“night”), North Frisian naacht, Nacht, noach, nåcht (“night”), Saterland Frisian Noacht (“night”), West Frisian nacht (“night”), Cimbrian and Dutch nacht (“night”), German and Low German Nacht (“night”), Luxembourgish Nuecht (“night”), Mòcheno nòcht (“night”), Vilamovian naocht (“night”), Yiddish נאַכט (nakht, “night”), Danish nat (“night”), Faroese nátt (“night”), Icelandic nátt, nótt (“night”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish natt (“night”), Scanian nøtt (“night”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (nahts, “night”); also Breton noz (“night”), Cornish and Welsh nos (“night”), Irish anocht (“tonight”), Manx noght (“tonight”), Scottish Gaelic a-nochd, an nochd (“tonight”), Latin nox (“night”) (whence English nox, a doublet), Greek νύχτα (nýchta, “night”), Albanian natë (“night”), Latgalian and Latvian nakts (“night”), Lithuanian naktis (“night”), Belarusian ноч (noč, “night”), Bulgarian нощ (nošt, “night”), Czech, Polish, and Slovak noc (“night”), Macedonian ноќ (noḱ, “night”), Russian ночь (nočʹ, “night”), Serbo-Croatian ноћ, noć (“night”), Slovene noč (“night”), Ukrainian ніч (nič, “night”), Tocharian A nakcu (“last night; at night”), Tocharian B nekcīye (“last night; at night”), Hittite 𒉈𒆪𒊻 (nekuz, “evening, nightfall; dawn, twilight”), Sanskrit नक्त् (nákt).

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