night

Meaning

Noun

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

Intj

Ellipsis of good night.

Verb

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

Synonyms

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

Translations

nuit

🌃

noche

🌃

Nacht

🌃

notte

🌃

nacht

🌃

nit

🌃

noite

🌃

νύχτα

nox

🌃

gece

🌃

Abend

🌆

soir

🌆

soirée

🌆

sera

🌆

Pronounced as (IPA)

/naɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: nighte

Inherited from Old English: niht

Cognate with Scots: nicht

Cognate with Western Frisian: nacht

Cognate with Dutch: nacht

Cognate with Low German: Nacht

Cognate with German: Nacht

Cognate with Danish: nat

Cognate with Swedish: -

Cognate with Norwegian: natt

Cognate with Faroese: nátt

Cognate with Icelandic: nótt

Cognate with Gothic: 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃

Cognate with Greek: νύχτα

Cognate with Russian: ночь

Cognate with Sanskrit: नक्ति

Cognate with Latin: nox

In summary

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”), Yola neeght, nieght, nyeght (“night”), North Frisian naacht, Nacht, nåcht (“night”), Saterland Frisian Noacht (“night”), West Frisian nacht (“night”), Cimbrian, Dutch nacht (“night”), German, 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”), Greek νύχτα (nýchta, “night”), Russian ночь (nočʹ, “night”), Sanskrit नक्त (naktá), नक्ति (nákti, “night”), and Latin nox (“night”), whence English nox, a doublet.

Sentences

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 .

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

Despair is something that haunts us at night .

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