night

Noun
  1. The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside (synset 115192074)
    is a type of: period, period of time, time period - an amount of time
    subtypes:
    • weeknight - any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday
    • wedding night - the night after the wedding when bride and groom sleep together
    has:
    • evening - the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way
    • late-night hour - the latter part of night
    • midnight - 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
    • small hours - the hours just after midnight
    • lights-out - a prescribed bedtime
    is a part of: 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours - time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
    same as: dark, nighttime
  2. A period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom (synset 115192624)
    is a type of: period, period of time, time period - an amount of time
  3. The period spent sleeping (synset 115192521)
    "I had a restless night"
    is a type of: period, period of time, time period - an amount of time
  4. The dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit (synset 115180707)
    "three nights later he collapsed"
    is a type of: time unit, unit of time - a unit for measuring time periods
  5. Darkness (synset 114007202)
    "it vanished into the night"
    is a type of: dark, darkness - absence of light or illumination
  6. A shortening of nightfall (synset 115194806)
    "they worked from morning to night"
    is a type of: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight - the time of day immediately following sunset
  7. The time between sunset and midnight (synset 115192396)
    "he watched television every night"
    is a type of: period, period of time, time period - an amount of time
  8. Roman goddess of night;
    Daughter of Erebus;
    Counterpart of Greek Nyx (synset 109582898)
    is an instance of: roman deity - a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans
    same as: nox

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