Definition: Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx
Main entry: night
Definition: darkness
Usage: it vanished into the night
Main entry: night
Definition: the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit
Usage: three nights later he collapsed
Main entry: night, nighttime, dark
Definition: the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
Main entry: night
Definition: the time between sunset and midnight
Usage: he watched television every night
Main entry: night
Definition: the period spent sleeping
Usage: I had a restless night
Main entry: night
Definition: a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
Main entry: night
Definition: a shortening of nightfall
Usage: they worked from morning to night