Definition of NIGHT

night

Plural: nights

Noun

  • The period between sunset and sunrise; darkness.
  • the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
  • a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
  • the period spent sleeping
    • "I had a restless night"
  • the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit
    • "three nights later he collapsed"
  • darkness
    • "it vanished into the night"
  • a shortening of nightfall
    • "they worked from morning to night"
  • the time between sunset and midnight
    • "he watched television every night"
  • Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx
  • The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
  • 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.
  • A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
  • An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
  • A day, or at least a night.
  • Nightfall.
  • Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
  • A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
  • A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.

Intj

  • Ellipsis of good night.

Verb

  • To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.

Examples

  • a night on the town
  • from noon till night
  • He often played Words With Friends late into the night, chasing high scores.
  • I stayed my friend's house for three nights.
  • Most animals are awake at day and sleep at night.
  • Night, y'all! Thanks for a great evening!
  • The cat disappeared into the night.

Origin / 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”).
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 नक्त (naktá), नक्ति (nákti, “night”), and Latin nox (“night”), whence English nox, a doublet.

Scrabble Score: 9

night: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
night: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
night: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

night: valid Words With Friends Word