night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nīt
ipa: /naɪt/
ipa: /nʌɪt/
ipa: /niːt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: knight
homophone: nite
Forms: form: nights
form: nite
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”).
Cognate with Scots nicht, neicht (“night”), Yola neeght, nieght, nyeght (“night”), North Frisian naacht, Nacht, nåcht (“night”), Saterland Frisian Noacht (“night”), West Frisian nacht (“night”), Cimbrian, Dutch nacht (“night”), German, 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”), Greek νύχτα (nýchta, “night”), Russian ночь (nočʹ, “night”), Sanskrit नक्त (naktá), नक्ति (nákti, “night”), and Latin nox (“night”), whence English nox, a doublet.
Senses: examples: text: Most animals are awake at day and sleep at night.
text: 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.
ref: 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
glosses: The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: law
glosses: A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
examples: text: a night on the town
text: 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.
ref: 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
glosses: An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
examples: text: I stayed my friend's house for three nights.
glosses: A day, or at least a night.
examples: text: from noon till night
glosses: Nightfall.
examples: text: The cat disappeared into the night.
glosses: Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
glosses: A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.
Synonyms: sense: evening or night spent at a particular activity
word: evening
word: nighttime
word: evening
sense: quality of sleep
word: sleep
sense: nightfall
word: dark
word: dusk
word: nightfall
word: sundown
word: sunset
sense: darkness
word: blackness
sense: darkness
word: darkness
sense: darkness
word: gloom
sense: darkness
word: obscurity
sense: darkness
word: shadow
Hypernyms: 24-hour day
Hyponyms: word: first night
word: last night
word: midnight
word: tomorrow night
word: tonight
word: Twelfth Night
english: rare compared to last night
translation: rare compared to last night
word: yesterday night
Derived terms: all cats are gray at night
all cats are grey at night
all cats are grey by night
all-night
all night
all-nighter
allnighter
all-night-man
alnight
amateur night
American night heron
anight
at night
Azara's night monkey
back-to-school night
bank night
barnight
because you touch yourself at night
benight
be on nights
bin night
birthnight
black as night
black-crowned night heron
born at night but not last night
buck's night
Burns Night
Burns night
by night
call it an early night
call it a night
club night
clubnight
Cracker Night
creature of the night
dark night
dark night of the soul
date night
day and night
day-and-night
day for night
day-night
day-night cycle
day or night
day-to-night
dead of night
deepnight
early night
election night
Eleventh Night
evennight
everynight
field night
fireworks night
fly-by-night
forenight
fortnight
fortnightly
Friday night lights
girls' night out
go gentle into that good night
go night-night
goodnight
good-night
gray night
grey night
guest night
guinea pig night
half-night stand
have a night of it
hell night
hen night
hens' night
holinight
how can you sleep at night
how do you sleep at night
internight
intranight
it'll be all right on the night
Japanese night heron
keep someone up at night
ladies' night
lady of the night
late night
late-night
like night and day
long night moon
make a night of it
Malayan night heron
midnight
morning after the night before
morning-noon-and-night
multinight
night adder
night after night
night air
night-and-day
night and day
night-ape
night auditor
night-bat
night bird
night-biter
night biter
night-blind
night blind
night blindness
night-blooming cereus
night-blooming jasmine
night blue
nightbreak
nightbreeze
night-bright
nightcap
night cap
night-cap
night-cart
night cart
night-cellar
night chair
nightchurr
night class
nightcloth
nightclothes
night club
nightclub
nightclubbing
nightcore
night court
night courting
night crawler
nightcrawler
night crawling
night cream
night diaper
nightdream
nightdreaming
night-dress
nightdress
night eating syndrome
night emission
nighten
nighter
nightery
night eye
nightfall
night-fall
nightfaring
night-fear
night fear
nightfear
night fighter
nightfire
nightfish
night-flowering jasmine
night fly
nightfowl
nightfright
night frog
nightful
night game
nightgear
night-glass
night glass
nightgloom
nightglow
night-gown
nightgown
night green
nightguard
night-hag
night hag
nighthawk
night hawk
night-heron
night heron
night-house
night house
night hunter
night hunting
nightie
nightingale
nightish
nightjar
night-jar
night jasmine
night job
nightlamp
nightless
night letter
nightlife
night-lifer
nightlight
night light
nightlike
nightline
night lizard
nightlong
nightly
night-man
night man
nightman
nightmarcher
nightmare
nightmarish
night market
night meal
night mode
night monkey
night moth
night nappy
night-night
night night
Night of Broken Glass
night of long knives
Night of Sevens
night of the long knives
night out
night owl
night-owl
night palsy
night parrot
night person
nightpiece
night-rail
night-raven
night rider
nightrider
night-riding
nightrobe
night safe
nightscape
night school
nightscope
nightshade
night shelter
night shift
nightshining
nightshirt
nightside
night sky
night-sky
night snake
night-soil
night soil
night soil man
night spot
nightspot
night-stalker
nightstand
night start
nightstick
night stick
nightstool
nightsuit
night sweats
nightswimming
night table
night terror
nighttide
night time
nighttime
night-time
night tremor
night-tripping
night vision
nightwalker
nightwalking
nightward
nightwards
night watch
nightwatch
night-watch
night-watchman
night watchman
nightwatchman
night-watchman state
night watchman state
nightwear
night wind
night work
nightwork
nightworker
night writing
nighty
nighty-night
nighty night
nine night
noon of night
one-dog night
one-night stand
opening night
outnight
over night
overnight
paynight
polar night
pretty-by-night
Punkie Night
queen of the night
Rodrigues night heron
Saturday night palsy
Saturday-night special
Saturday night special
school night
sennight
seven-night
sevennight
ships in the night
ships passing in the night
ships that passed in the night
ships that pass in the night
soap night
stag night
stay the night
stranger in the night
the freaks come out at night
the night before last
the night is young
thief in the night
things that go bump in the night
three dog night
three-dog night
time of night
Tobias night
to-night
tonight
Trafalgar Night dinner
Twelfth Night pie
twi-night
twinight
under cover of night
Walpurgis night
watchnight
watch night
watch-night
watch of the night
wedding night
weeknight
whatever helps you sleep at night
white night
Whitsun-night
woman of the night
worknight
work nights
yesternight