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the part of every 24-hour period when it is dark because there is no direct light from the sun: [ C ] I’ll be in Pittsburgh on Tuesday night. [ C ] There was a fire last night in the Tremont section of the Bronx. [ U ] It often gets cold here at night.
Night. The night sky above a French chapel with the Milky Way and stars visible, and light pollution on the horizon. Night or nighttime is the period of darkness when the Sun is below the horizon. The opposite of nighttime is daytime.
1. : the time from dusk to dawn when no sunlight is visible. The store is open all night. 2. a. : an evening or night taken as an occasion or point of time. the opening night. b. : an evening set aside for a particular purpose.
NIGHT definition: 1. the time in every 24 hours when it is dark and people usually sleep: 2. the period from the…. Learn more.
Synonyms for NIGHT: midnight, evening, nighttime, dusk, dark, darkness, twilight, nightfall; Antonyms of NIGHT: day, daytime, morning, dawn, sunrise, daybreak, afternoon, forenoon.
The night is the part of each period of twenty-four hours when it is dark outside, especially the time when most people are sleeping.
Night refers to the time of day between sunset and sunrise. The word night can also refer to the darkness that accompanies this period or an evening reserved for a certain event. Night can also be used as an adjective to describe something that happens at night.
noun. /naɪt/. /naɪt/. [uncountable, countable] Idioms. the time between one day and the next when it is dark, when people usually sleep. at night These animals only come out at night. by night They sleep by day and hunt by night.
Definition of night noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
the period of darkness between sunset and sunrise. the beginning of this period; nightfall. the darkness of night; the dark. a condition or time of obscurity, ignorance, sinfulness, misfortune, etc.: the long night of European history known as the Dark Ages.
