night

Significat (anglès)

Noun

1. The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
2. 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.
3. A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
4. An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
5. A day, or at least a night.
6. Nightfall.
7. Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
8. A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
9. (colloquial) A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.

Intj

Ellipsis of good night.

Verb

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

Sinònims

evening

🌆

darkness

dark

nighttime

night-time

nightfall

nightly

at night

dusk

nocturnal

be dark

midnight

late evening

afternoon

day

early evening

etc.

eve

late night

nightime

middle of the night

even

evenfall

eventide

season

tonight

twilight

vesper

arvo

become dark

dinner time

early morning

late at night

sleep

😴

night time

gloam

night-fall

wee hours

nighttide

arvy

evetime

crepusculum

all

is falling

afternoons

blackness

chestnut

🌰

dawn

daytime

exhaust

get dark

gloaming

gloom

gloomy

in the night

last night

midafternoon

murkiness

noon

🕛

obscureness

p.m.

post meridiem

profound

secretly

skies

sunset

time

⌚

tomorrow night

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/naɪt/

Etimologia (anglès)

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.

Sents

No one seemed to have thought about it that night .

Fly by night and you waste little time .

And tomorrow night , they will come into my possession .

We met Alexander and the bar and had a great time last night .

And I still claim I was right the night I proposed .

Despair is something that haunts us at night .

The following night , the boy appeared at the alchemist's tent with a horse .

Perusing the woods in the night , she could only rely on her instincts .