night Definition

night
noun

1. The time of darkness between sunset and sunrise.

Thesaurus: dark, darkness, evening, dead of night, nightfall, twilight, witching hour; Antonym: day, daytime.
2. The time between going to bed and getting up in the morning.
3. Evening.

Example: stayed at home last night
4. Nightfall.
5. poetic
Darkness.
6. An evening on which a particular activity or event takes place.

Example: my aerobics night
7. A state of ignorance, evil or sorrow, etc.

adj

1. Belonging to, occurring, or done in the night.

Example: the night hours
2. Working or on duty at night.

Example: the night shift

Derivative: nightly
adj

Done or happening at night or every night.
Thesaurus: by night, at night, nocturnally, each night, nights, regularly.

adverb

At night; every night.

Derivative: nights
adverb

colloq
At night; most nights or every night.

Idiom: make a night of it

colloq
To celebrate late into the night.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon niht.