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night / Night > 8 senses
NOUN	1	night, nighttime, dark	The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
	2	night	The time between sunset and midnight
	3	night	The period spent sleeping
	4	night	The dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit
	5	night	Darkness
	6	night	A shortening of nightfall
	7	night	A period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
	8	Night, Nox	Roman goddess of night

night / Night > pronunciation
Sounds	nay't
Rhymes	acolyte, airtight, alight, and 175 more rhymes in ayt...

night > noun 1, time
Meaning	The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside.
Synonyms	nighttime, dark
Contrary	day, daytime, daylight
Part of	day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day
Parts	evening; late-night hour; midnight; small hours; lights-out
Broader	time period, period of time, period
Narrower	weeknight; wedding night
Adjectives	nightly; nightly; nocturnal

night > noun 2, time
Meaning	The time between sunset and midnight.
Examples	"he watched television every night"
Broader	time period, period of time, period

night > noun 3, time
Meaning	The period spent sleeping.
Examples	"I had a restless night"
Broader	time period, period of time, period

night > noun 4, time
Meaning	The dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit.
Examples	"three nights later he collapsed"
Broader	time unit, unit of time

night > noun 5, state
Meaning	Darkness.
Examples	"it vanished into the night"
Broader	dark, darkness

night > noun 6, time
Meaning	A shortening of nightfall.
Examples	"they worked from morning to night"
Broader	twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle

night > noun 7, time
Meaning	A period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom.
Broader	time period, period of time, period

Night > noun 8, person
Meaning	Roman goddess of night. Daughter of Erebus. Counterpart of Greek Nyx.
Synonyms	Nox
Instance of	Roman deity

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