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