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night - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'night' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Night [ n.]
- That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
- Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
- Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
- A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.
- The period after the close of life; death.
- A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.

Meaning of 'night' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . night [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the time between sunset and midnight
Example in sentence:
  • he watched television every night
Meaning (2):
- the period spent sleeping
Example in sentence:
  • I had a restless night
Meaning (3):
- darkness
Example in sentence:
  • it vanished into the night
Meaning (4):
- a shortening of nightfall
Example in sentence:
  • they worked from morning to night
Meaning (5):
- the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit
Example in sentence:
  • three nights later he collapsed