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English noun: night | |||
| 1. | night (time) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | ||
| Synonyms | dark, nighttime | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | period, period of time, time period | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | wedding night, weeknight | ||
| Part holonym | evening, late-night hour, lights-out, midnight, small hours | ||
| Part meronym | 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours | ||
| Antonyms | daylight, daytime, day | ||
| 2. | night (time) a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | period, period of time, time period | ||
| 3. | night (time) the period spent sleeping | ||
| Samples | I had a restless night. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | period, period of time, time period | ||
| 4. | night (time) the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit | ||
| Samples | Three nights later he collapsed. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | time unit, unit of time | ||
| 5. | night (state) darkness | ||
| Samples | It vanished into the night. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | dark, darkness | ||
| 6. | night (time) a shortening of nightfall | ||
| Samples | They worked from morning to night. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight | ||
| 7. | night (time) the time between sunset and midnight | ||
| Samples | He watched television every night. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | period, period of time, time period | ||
| 8. | Night (person) Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx | ||
| Synonyms | Nox | ||
| Instance hypernym | Roman deity | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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