night
1. the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside (Freq. 163)
• Syn:
nighttime, dark
• Ant:
day
• Derivationally related forms:
nightly
• Hypernyms:
time period, period of time, period
• Hyponyms:
weeknight, wedding night
• Part Holonyms:
day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day
• Part Meronyms:
evening, late-night hour, midnight, small hours, lights-out
2. a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
time period, period of time, period
3. the period spent sleeping (Freq. 1)
- I had a restless night
• Hypernyms:
time period, period of time, period
4. the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit (Freq. 1)
- three nights later he collapsed
• Hypernyms:
time unit, unit of time
5. darkness (Freq. 1)
- it vanished into the night
• Hypernyms:
dark, darkness
6. a shortening of nightfall
- they worked from morning to night
• Hypernyms:
twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall,
evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
7. the time between sunset and midnight
- he watched television every night
• Hypernyms:
time period, period of time, period
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