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Sounds | nay't |
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Rhymes | acolyte, airtight, alight, and 175 more rhymes in ayt at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside. |
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Synonyms | nighttime, dark |
Part of | day, twenty-four hours, solar day, mean solar day |
Parts | evening; late-night hour; midnight; small hours; lights-out |
Narrower | weeknight; wedding night |
Broader | time period, period of time, period |
Contrary | day, daytime, daylight |
Adjectives | nocturnal |
Meaning | The time between sunset and midnight. |
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Examples | "he watched television every night" |
Broader | time period, period of time, period |
Meaning | The period spent sleeping. |
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Examples | "I had a restless night" |
Broader | time period, period of time, period |
Meaning | The dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit. |
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Examples | "three nights later he collapsed" |
Broader | time unit, unit of time |
Meaning | Darkness. |
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Examples | "it vanished into the night" |
Broader | dark, darkness |
Meaning | A shortening of nightfall. |
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Examples | "they worked from morning to night" |
Broader | twilight, dusk, gloaming, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle |
Meaning | A period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom. |
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Broader | time period, period of time, period |
Meaning | Roman goddess of night. Daughter of Erebus. Counterpart of Greek Nyx. |
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Synonyms | Nox |
Broader | Roman deity |