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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