Definitions for night

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night night

Spelling: [nahyt]

IPA: /naɪt/

Night is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in night (ghint).

Definitions for night

noun

1. the period of darkness between sunset and sunrise.
2. the beginning of this period; nightfall.
3. the darkness of night; the dark.
4. a condition or time of obscurity, ignorance, sinfulness, misfortune, etc.:
5. (sometimes initial capital letter) an evening used or set aside for a particular event, celebration, or other special purpose:

Idioms

1. night and day, unceasingly; continually: a complete difference; completely different: Also, day and night.

adjective

1. of or relating to night:
2. occurring, appearing, or seen at night:
3. used or designed to be used at night:
4. working at night:
5. active at night:

Origin of night

before 900; Middle English; Old English niht, neaht, cognate with German Nacht, Gothic nahts, Latin nox (stem noct-), Greek nýx (stem nykt-)

Examples for night

People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.

Slept in snow-drift that night in wet clothes, mercury 40 below.

At parting, she urged Eudora to share her apartment for the night.

Late Wednesday night, French authorities reported that Mourad had surrendered to police, while the two brothers remained at large.

As of Thursday night, the brothers remained on the loose, last seen in northern France.

They were the last she heard sung by Paralus, the night Anaxagoras departed from Athens.

He was so good they shot him all up one night last fall over to Wardner.

“JSwipe is currently under heavy load,” flashed across the screen, one night as a friend and I looked at it.

Say, you come out with me some night jest in your workin' clothes.

On Dec. 22, 1799, Sands told her cousins that she would be leaving to elope with a fellow boarder named Levi Weeks that night.