NIGHT
\nˈa͡ɪt], \nˈaɪt], \n_ˈaɪ_t]\
Definitions of NIGHT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx
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darkness; "it vanished into the night"
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the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit; "three nights later he collapsed"
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the time between sunset and midnight; "he watched television every night"
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the period spent sleeping; "I had a restless night"
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a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
By Princeton University
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Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx
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darkness; "it vanished into the night"
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the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit; "three nights later he collapsed"
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the time between sunset and midnight; "he watched television every night"
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the period spent sleeping; "I had a restless night"
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a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
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Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
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A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.
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The period after the close of life; death.
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A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
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Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
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A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.
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The period after the close of life; death.
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A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The time from sunset to sunrise: darkness: intellectual and moral darkness: a state of adversity: death.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, German, Latin, Greek] The time from sunset to sunrise ;- time of rest ; time of darkness ; hence, gloom ; obsecurity ;- a state of ignorance ;- a state of affliction or distress ; adversity ;- death ;- the time of the absence of life from nature.
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