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night

UK/ˈnɑjt/ US/ˈnaɪ̯t/ very common

noun

1.

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

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2.

the time between sunset and midnight

  • “he watched television every night”
3.

the period spent sleeping

  • “I had a restless night”
4.

the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit

  • “three nights later he collapsed”
5.

darkness

  • “it vanished into the night”
6.

a shortening of nightfall

  • “they worked from morning to night”
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Origin

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,...

Phrases

  • admin night
  • all cats are gray at night
  • all cats are grey at night
  • all cats are grey by night
  • all night
  • amateur night
  • at night
  • Azara's night monkey

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