night
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- nite (informal)
Etymology
[edit]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”), West Frisian nacht (“night”), Dutch nacht (“night”), Low German Nacht (“night”), German Nacht (“night”), Danish nat (“night”), Swedish and Norwegian natt (“night”), Faroese nátt (“night”), Icelandic nótt (“night”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (nahts, “night”), Greek νύχτα (nýchta, “night”), Russian ночь (nočʹ, “night”), Sanskrit नक्ति (nákti, “night”), and Latin nox (“night”), whence English nox, a doublet.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]night (countable and uncountable, plural nights)
- (countable) The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
- Most animals are awake at day and sleep at night.
- 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:
- 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.
- 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
- 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.
- (astronomy, countable) 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.
- (law, countable) A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
- (countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
- a night on the town
- 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
- 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.
- (countable) A day, or at least a night.
- I stayed my friend's house for three nights.
- (uncountable) Nightfall.
- from noon till night
- (uncountable) Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
- The cat disappeared into the night.
- (uncountable) A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
- night:
- (sports, colloquial) A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:night.
Synonyms
[edit]- (evening or night spent at a particular activity): evening; see also Thesaurus:nighttime or Thesaurus:evening
- (quality of sleep): sleep
- (nightfall): dark, dusk, nightfall, sundown, sunset; see also Thesaurus:dusk
- (darkness): blackness, darkness, gloom, obscurity, shadow
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “period between sunset and sunrise”): day; see also Thesaurus:daytime
- (antonym(s) of “darkness”): brightness, daylight, light
Hypernyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- 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
- 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 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
- 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-bat
- night bird
- night biter
- night-biter
- night blind
- night-blind
- night blindness
- night-blooming jasmine
- nightbreak
- nightbreeze
- night-bright
- night-cap
- night cap
- nightcap
- night-cart
- night cart
- night-cellar
- night chair
- nightchurr
- nightcloth
- nightclothes
- nightclub
- night club
- 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
- night-flowering jasmine
- night fly
- nightfright
- night frog
- nightful
- nightgear
- night-glass
- night glass
- nightglow
- nightgown
- night-gown
- 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
- nightjar
- night-jar
- night jasmine
- nightlamp
- nightless
- night letter
- nightlife
- night-lifer
- night light
- nightlight
- 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 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
- nightspot
- night spot
- 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
- night-watch
- nightwatch
- night watchman
- nightwatchman
- night-watchman
- night-watchman state
- night watchman state
- nightwear
- night wind
- nightwork
- night work
- night writing
- nighty
- nighty-night
- nighty night
- nine night
- noon of night
- one-dog night
- one-night stand
- opening night
- outnight
- overnight
- over night
- 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
- tonight
- to-night
- Twelfth Night pie
- twi-night
- twinight
- Walpurgis night
- watch-night
- watchnight
- 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
Descendants
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See also
[edit]- (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight (Category: en:Times of day)
Interjection
[edit]night
- Ellipsis of good night.
- Night, y'all! Thanks for a great evening!
Translations
[edit]Verb
[edit]night (third-person singular simple present nights, present participle nighting, simple past and past participle nighted)
- To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, Arabian Nights, in 16 volumes, published 2008, page 284:
- 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[.]
References
[edit]- “night”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pseudo-anglicism, borrowed from English night with the meaning of nightclub.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]night m (invariable)
- nightclub
- 2014, Gianfranco Tomei, Sole nero, Edizioni Nuova Cultura, page 42:
- Al centro di un night affollatissimo, su una pista, due ballerine stupiscono i clienti con i movimenti d'una danza moderna.
- At the center of a crowded nightclub, on a dancefloor, two dancers amaze customers with the movements of a modern dance.
References
[edit]- ^ night in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]night
- Alternative form of nyght
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English night.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]night f (plural nights)
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English doublets
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/aɪt
- Rhymes:English/aɪt/1 syllable
- English terms with homophones
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
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- en:Law
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- English colloquialisms
- en:Times of day
- English interjections
- English ellipses
- English verbs
- en:Night
- en:Time
- Italian pseudo-loans from English
- Italian terms derived from English
- Italian terms borrowed from English
- Italian 1-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ajt
- Rhymes:Italian/ajt/1 syllable
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Italian terms with quotations
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Portuguese terms borrowed from English
- Portuguese unadapted borrowings from English
- Portuguese terms derived from English
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese humorous terms