at night

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

at night

1. During the night.

   Synonyms: after dark, nocturnally

   Antonym: diurnally

   Owls usually hunt at night.

   • 1955 February, “Notes and News: Arresting an Earth Slip at Uxbridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 138:

     Movement was then observed in a part of the wall which had been quiescent, and another group of struts was therefore constructed, again during traffic hours as well as at night.

   • 1956 October, “Recent Changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 662:

     As these [diesel] trains have to be shedded under cover at night, four additional outdoor standage roads are being provided for stabling of electric rolling stock after inspection in the shed.

Related terms

• be on nights
• night job
• nightly
• night owl
• night shift

Translations

during the night

• Arabic: فِي اَللَّيْلَ (fī l-layla)
• Bashkir: төнөн (tönön), төндә (töndə)
• Catalan: de nit, a la nit
• Chickasaw: oklhilika̠
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夜間 / 夜间 (zh) (yèjiān), 夜裡 / 夜里 (zh) (yèli)

• Comorian:

  Maore Comorian: mauku

  Ngazidja Comorian: emasihu

• Czech: v noci
• Dutch: 's nachts (nl), in de nacht
• Esperanto: nokte
• Estonian: öösel (et)
• Finnish: yöllä (fi), öisin (fi)
• French: de nuit (fr), la nuit (fr), nuitamment (fr)
• Galician: á noite, de noite
• German: in der Nacht, nachts (de), während der Nacht
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: νύκτωρ (núktōr)

• Hebrew: בַּלַּיְלָה (baláyla, balláylɔ)
• Hindi: रात को (rāt ko)
• Hungarian: éjszaka (hu), éjjel (hu), éjszakánként (hu), éjjelenként (hu), éjjelente
• Irish: san oíche, istoíche
• Italian: di notte, nottetempo (it), la notte, nottempo
• Japanese: 夜に (ja) (よるに, yoru-ni), 夜間に (ja) (やかんに, yakan-ni)
• Latin: noctū (la)
• Old English: on niht, nihtes
• Polish: nocą (pl)
• Portuguese: à noite, de noite (pt)
• Punic: 𐤁𐤋𐤋 (bll)
• Romanian: noaptea (ro)
• Romansh: da notg
• Russian: но́чью (ru) (nóčʹju)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: ihkku

• Sanskrit: अक्तु (sa) (aktu)
• Spanish: por la noche, de noche
• Swahili: usiku (sw)
• Swedish: på natten, nattetid (sv)
• Tagalog: sa gabi, tuwing gabi
• Ternate: sifutu
• Tocharian B: kästwer
• Urdu: رات کو (rāt ko)
• Yiddish: אויפֿדערנאַכט (oyfdernakht)

Anagrams

• hatting, tathing