night

Noun

• Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx

• the time between sunset and midnight
  • he watched television every night
    

• a shortening of nightfall
  • they worked from morning to night
    

• darkness
  • it vanished into the night
    

• the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit
  • three nights later he collapsed
    

• the period spent sleeping
  • I had a restless night
    

• a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom

• the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Nox , Night , nighttime , dark
• Antonyms: 
  day , daytime , daylight