night
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night/nʌɪt/
▶noun
- 1 the time from sunset to sunrise.
■ this as the interval between two days.
- 2 the darkness of night.
■ literary nightfall.
- 3 an evening.
– derivatives
nightless adjective.
nightless adjective.
– origin OE neaht, niht, of Gmc origin.
'night' also found in these Oxford entries:
airglow
- all-nighter
- bed
- bed-wetting
- bivouac
- Bonfire Night
- bosom
- burn
- clock
- compline
- crucible
- curfew
- daisy
- dark night of the soul
- day
- dead
- dew
- droit de seigneur
- enuresis
- equator
- equinox
- Father Christmas
- first night
- first post
- fly-by-night
- gegenschein
- goodnight
- Guy Fawkes Night
- Halloween
- hen night
- hour
- Jupiter
- kakapo
- ladies' night
- lady of the night
- lamp
- last post
- Last Supper
- late
- light pollution
- lucubrate
- lyke wake
- midnight
- Milky Way
- moon
- moonlight
- navigation lights
- nicotiana
- nightbird
