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Night

//niːt// intj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Intj

1
Ellipsis of good night. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"Night, y'all! Thanks for a great evening!"

Proper Noun

1
The 92nd sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
2
The goddess of the night in Heathenry. Germanic
""In this prayer, Sigdrifa calls upon powers of Nature - Day, Night, Earth - and the gods and goddesses as a group."

Noun

1
The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark. countable
"Most animals are awake at day and sleep at night."
2
darkness wordnet
3
The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight. countable
4
the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit wordnet
5
A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise. countable

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6
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside wordnet
7
An evening or night spent at a particular activity. countable
"a night on the town"
8
the time between sunset and midnight wordnet
9
A day, or at least a night. countable
"I stayed my friend's house for three nights."
10
the period spent sleeping wordnet
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Nightfall. uncountable
"from noon till night"
12
a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom wordnet
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Darkness (due to it being nighttime). uncountable
"The cat disappeared into the night."
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a shortening of nightfall wordnet
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A dark blue colour, midnight blue. uncountable
16
A night's worth of competitions, generally one game. colloquial, countable, uncountable

Verb

1
To spend a night (in a place), to overnight. intransitive
"So I took seat and ate somewhat of my vivers, my horse also feeding upon his fodder, and we nighted in that spot and next morning I set out[.]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English nighte, night, nyght, niȝt, naht, from Old English niht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht (“night”), from Proto-Germanic *nahts (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”). Cognates Cognate with Scots nicht (“night”), Yola neeght, nieght, nyeght (“night”), North Frisian naacht, Nacht, noach, nåcht (“night”), Saterland Frisian Noacht (“night”), West Frisian nacht (“night”), Cimbrian, Dutch nacht (“night”), German, Low German Nacht (“night”), Luxembourgish Nuecht (“night”), Mòcheno nòcht (“night”), Vilamovian naocht (“night”), Yiddish נאַכט (nakht, “night”), Danish nat (“night”), Faroese nátt (“night”), Icelandic nátt, nótt (“night”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish natt (“night”), Scanian nøtt (“night”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (nahts, “night”); also Breton noz (“night”), Cornish and Welsh nos (“night”), Irish anocht (“tonight”), Manx noght (“tonight”), Scottish Gaelic a-nochd, an nochd (“tonight”), Latin nox (“night”) (whence English nox, a doublet), Greek νύχτα (nýchta, “night”), Albanian natë (“night”), Latgalian and Latvian nakts (“night”), Lithuanian naktis (“night”), Belarusian ноч (noč, “night”), Bulgarian нощ (nošt, “night”), Czech, Polish, and Slovak noc (“night”), Macedonian ноќ (noḱ, “night”), Russian ночь (nočʹ, “night”), Serbo-Croatian ноћ, noć (“night”), Slovene noč (“night”), Ukrainian ніч (nič, “night”), Tocharian A nakcu (“last night; at night”), Tocharian B nekcīye (“last night; at night”), Hittite 𒉈𒆪𒊻 (nekuz, “evening, nightfall; dawn, twilight”), Sanskrit नक्त् (nákt).

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