night
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
hobbies
law
lifestyle
natural-sciences
sports
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 (“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).
Inflected forms:
form: nights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: neet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Yorkshire
archaic
form: nights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nighted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: nite
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: neet
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Yorkshire
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: A day, or at least a night.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I stayed my friend's house for three nights.
gloss: Nightfall.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: from noon till night
gloss: Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The cat disappeared into the night.
gloss: A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
gloss: To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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[.]
Synonyms: evening
dusk
nightfall
sundown
sunset
sleep
Antonyms: day
brightness
daylight
light
Derived words: admin night
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
clubnight
club night
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
good-night
goodnight
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
night cap
night-cap
nightcap
night-cart
night cart
night-cellar
night chair
nightchurr
night class
nightcloth
nightclothes
night club
nightclub
nightclubbing
nightcore
night court
night courting
nightcrawler
night crawler
night crawling
night cream
night diaper
nightdream
nightdreaming
night-dress
nightdress
night eating syndrome
night emission
nighten
nighter
nightery
night eye
night-fall
nightfall
nightfaring
night-fear
nightfear
night fear
night fighter
nightfire
nightfish
night flit
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
night hawk
nighthawk
night-heron
night heron
night-house
night house
night hunter
night hunting
nightie
nightingale
nightish
night-jar
nightjar
night jasmine
night job
nightlamp
nightless
night letter
nightlife
night-lifer
night light
nightlight
nightlike
nightline
night lizard
nightlong
nightly
night man
nightman
night-man
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
night-shining cloud
nightshirt
nightside
night sky
night-sky
night snake
night-soil
night soil
night soil man
nightspot
night spot
night-stalker
nightstand
night start
night stick
nightstick
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
night-watch
nightwatch
night-watching
night watchman
nightwatchman
night-watchman
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
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