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night
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(naɪt)night
(naɪt)n.
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See Also: DARKNESS
- The black night spread like glistening caviar —Diane Wakoski
- The dark-blue velvet night hung like a curtain —Elizabeth Bowen
- The darkness of night, like pain, is dumb; the darkness of dawn, like peace, is silent —Rabindranath Tagore
- Dusk was falling like blue flakes —Truman Capote
- The evenings and nights were like shutters opening and closing, no more than that —Dan Jacobson
- Midnight shakes the memory as a madman shakes a dead geranium —T. S. Eliot
- Night, bereft of dreams, is like a deserted railway station after hours —Robert Duncan
- Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truth —P. J. Bailey
- Night comes like a blackout —John Rechy
- The night dives down like one great crow —Richard Wilbur
- Night falls like a dropped shutter —Beryl Markham
- Night falls like fire —Algernon Charles Swinburne
- The night feels like a gigantic Ferris wheel turning in blackness, very slowly —Margaret Laurence
- Night had fallen like a black curtain —Colin Forbes
- The night is as soft as milk —Albert Camus
- The night is like flower petals, the air moist as a damp cloth —W. P. Kinsella
- The night is soft and silent, warm as cashmere —W. P. Kinsella
- The night roars on … like an express train —Erich Maria Remarque
- The night descended on her like a benediction —Joseph Conrad
- The nights stick together like pages in an old book —John Ashberry
- The night stretches before me like an endless checklist —Natascha Wodin
- The night trickles on like liquid time —Natascha Wodin
- The still night drifted deep like snow about me —Edna St. Vincent Millay
- The summer night is like a perfection of thought —Wallace Stevens
- The night, like ice, seemed to harden around her —William Dieter
night
Night is the period during each twenty-four hours when it is dark. If something happens regularly during this period, you say that it happens at night.
A night is one of these periods of darkness. You usually refer to a particular period as the night.
If something happened during the night before the present day, you say that it happened in the night, during the night, or last night.
You can also say that a situation existed last night.
Last night is also used for saying that something happened during the previous evening.
If you are talking about a day in the past and you want to say that something happened the night before that day, you say that it happened in the night, during the night, or the previous night.
If you want to make it clear that you are talking about a particular time in the early part of the night rather than the morning, you add at night.
However, if you are talking about a time after midnight and you want to make it clear that you are talking about the night and not the afternoon, you say in the morning.
Noun | 1. | ![]() period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours - time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day" weeknight - any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday evening - the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way; "an evening at the opera" late-night hour - the latter part of night midnight - 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night; "young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight" small hours - the hours just after midnight lights-out - a prescribed bedtime wedding night - the night after the wedding when bride and groom sleep together |
2. | night - a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" | |
3. | night - the period spent sleeping; "I had a restless night" period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" | |
4. | night - the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit; "three nights later he collapsed" time unit, unit of time - a unit for measuring time periods | |
5. | night - darkness; "it vanished into the night" | |
6. | night - a shortening of nightfall; "they worked from morning to night" | |
7. | night - the time between sunset and midnight; "he watched television every night" period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" | |
8. | Night - Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx |
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"Night hath a thousand eyes" [John Lyly Maides Metamorphose]
"The night has a thousand eyes,"
"And the day but one" [F.W. Bourdillon Light]
"Night is the half of life, and the better half" [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre]
"the huge and thoughtful night" [Walt Whitman When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd]
"sable-vested night, eldest of things" [John Milton Paradise Lost]
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nounnight
[naɪt]it is night (liter) → es de noche
Monday night → el lunes por la noche
a Beethoven night → un concierto dedicado a Beethoven
all night (long) → toda la noche
at night → por la noche, de noche
11 o'clock at night → las 11 de la noche
last thing at night → lo último antes de acostarse
to stay up late at night → trasnochar
to have a bad night → dormir mal, pasar una mala noche
the night before the ceremony → la víspera de la ceremonia
by night → de noche, por la noche
night and day → noche y día
to have an early night → acostarse temprano
good night! → ¡buenas noches!
in the night → durante la noche
last night (= late) → anoche; (= in the evening) → ayer por la tarde
the night before last → anteanoche
to have a late night → acostarse muy tarde
you've had too many late nights → llevas muchos días acostándote muy tarde
we decided to make a night of it and go to a club afterwards → decidimos prolongar la velada e irnos a una discoteca después
to have a night out → salir por la noche
I can't sleep nights (US) → no puedo dormir la noche
to spend the night → pasar la noche
to spend the night together (euph) (= to have sex) → pasar la noche juntos
tomorrow night → mañana por la noche
to work nights → trabajar de noche
night blindness N → ceguera f nocturna
night fighter N → caza m nocturno, cazabombardero m nocturno
night nurse N → enfermera f de noche
night owl N (fig) → ave f nocturna
night porter N → guarda m nocturno
night safe N → caja f de seguridad nocturna
night school N → escuela f nocturna
night shift N → turno m nocturno, turno m de noche
night stand N (US) = night table night storage heater N → acumulador m eléctrico nocturno
night table N → mesita f de noche
night vision N → visión f nocturna
see also night-vision night watch N (= shift) → turno m de noche (Hist) → ronda f nocturna; (= individual) = night watchman night watchman N (in factory) → vigilante m nocturno; (in street) → sereno m
night work N → trabajo m nocturno
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(nait) nounnight
→ nochenight
- Good night → Buenas noches
- How much is it per night? → ¿Cuánto cuesta por noche?
- I want to stay an extra night → Quisiera quedarme una noche más
- How much is it per night for a tent? → ¿Cuánto cuesta montar una carpa por una noche?
- Last night → anoche
- At night → de noche
- Tomorrow night → mañana por la noche
- I'd like to reserve a table for two people for tomorrow night (US)
I'd like to book a table for two people for tomorrow night (UK) → Quiero reservar una mesa para dos personas para mañana por la noche