night

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   darkness

   it vanished into the night

2. 2
   noun

   the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit

   Three nights later, I took my first flying lessons.

3. 3
   noun

   the time between sunset and midnight

   They watched television every night.

4. 4
   noun

   the period spent sleeping

   I had a restless night

5. 5
   noun

   a shortening of nightfall

   they worked from morning to night

6. 6
   noun

   The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.

   Most animals are awake at day and sleep at night.

7. 7
   noun

   An evening or night spent at a particular activity.

   a night on the town

8. 8
   noun

   A day, or at least a night.

   I stayed my friend's house for three nights.

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”). Cognates Cognate with Scots nicht (“night”), Yola neeght, nieght, nyeght (“night”), North Frisian naacht, Nacht, noach, 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 na…