Type and usage of night from BoostVocab

night

/naɪt/

noun
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
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Similar:

dark nighttime

Opposite:

day

type of:
period period of time time period

part of:
24-hour interval day mean solar day solar day twenty-four hour period twenty-four hours
noun
Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx
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Similar:

nox
noun
a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
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type of:
period time period period of time
noun
a shortening of nightfall
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"they worked from morning to night"

type of:
crepuscle crepuscule twilight dusk evenfall nightfall fall gloam gloaming
noun
darkness
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"it vanished into the night"

type of:
darkness dark
noun
the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit
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"three nights later he collapsed"

type of:
unit of time time unit
noun
the period spent sleeping
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"I had a restless night"

type of:
time period period period of time
noun
the time between sunset and midnight
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"he watched television every night"

type of:
time period period of time period

Examples of night

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