night
/naɪ̯t/ noun A1- The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark. · Most animals are awake at day and sleep at night.
- The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
- A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
- An evening or night spent at a particular activity. · a night on the town
- A day, or at least a night. · I stayed my friend's house for three nights.
- Nightfall. · from noon till night
- Darkness (due to it being nighttime). · The cat disappeared into the night.
- A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
Plural nights
From the library
“Ah, Danglars!” whispered Caderousse, “you have deceived me—the trick you spoke of last night has been played; but I cannot suffer a poor old man or an innocent girl to die of grief through your fault.
The scene of the previous night now came back to his mind with startling clearness.
There he remained until past eleven at night.
“I remember, when we first knew her in Hertfordshire, how amazed we all were to find that she was a reputed beauty; and I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, ‘_She_ a beauty!
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