Noun Who are you calling at this time of night? It's eleven o'clock at night. She and her husband both work at night and sleep during the day. The store's open all night. They were up all night long playing video games. Let's stop for the night and get a hotel. a cold, rainy night in the city I stayed up late five nights in a row. Last night, I had the strangest dream.Spend six nights and seven days on a tropical island in the Caribbean!Adjective He is taking a night flight. a night manager at the supermarket This is the last night bus. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
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That wasn’t the only hot topic for Brunson fans coming out of her Emmy night speech. Michael Schneider, Variety, 16 Sep. 2022 Until then, the queue will carry on through the day, night, warmth, cold, and rain. Elise Taylor, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2022 While Jenner has plenty of looks to pass down to Stormi (especially as a five-time guest at fashion's biggest night), the mom of two has already checked one Met ball gown off the list. Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2022 Jordan Peele serves as a writer and producer of 2021's Candyman, and his entire catalog of horror makes for an excellent movie night along with DaCosta's creepy vision. Sezin Koehler, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2022 The player has access to footage shot for Marissa’s films, as well as behind-the-scenes ephemera: audition tapes, rehearsals, table reads, late-night TV appearances, etc. Darryn King, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022 This resourceful and cute owl from Young Living works as an essential-oil diffuser, a night light, a noise machine and more. Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2022 Elliott called for a more compact schedule, more night races, and argued against NASCAR continuing its season into November and going head-to-head with the NFL. Jenna Fryer, ajc, 16 Sep. 2022 Allen shook off two first-half interceptions to turn in a stellar performance to spoil banner night for the Rams in Los Angeles. Tim Bielik, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2022
Adjective
Universal Orlando has started selling tickets, multi-night admission and express passes for the 2022 edition of Halloween Horror Nights, which kicks off at Universal Studios on Sept. 2. Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2022 Murphy and crew made their live comeback last year with a multi-night residency at Brooklyn Steel in New York, and have continued performing this year. Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2022 Those performances will be followed by similar multi-night stops in Austin and Chicago. Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 June 2022 The trek will feature multi-night stands in major cities like Toronto, New York, Austin, Chicago, and Los Angeles, with Styles receiving support from Madi Diaz, Blood Orange, Gabriels, Jessie Ware, and Ben Harper on select dates. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2022 Issues with the school district’s new paycheck system, which caused some employees to receive partial paychecks or no pay at all, prompted the multi-night protest in the school district office. Lauren Hernández, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2022 LCD Soundsystem will return to the stage with a pair of multi-night residencies in Philadelphia and Boston this spring, marking the dance-punk pioneers’ first shows of 2022. Kat Bouza, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2022 Isbell and the 400 Unit play prestigious venues around the world, including multi-night stands at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 29 Sep. 2021 These are the places largely given over to nature, where people go to separate from the pull of modern life, often on multi-night trips. Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Aug. 2021 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English night, niht, going back to Old English nieht, niht, umlauted form of neaht, næht, going back to Germanic *naht- (whence Old Saxon & Old High German naht "night," Old Norse nótt, nátt, Gothic nahts), going back to Indo-European *nokw-t-, whence Old Irish innocht "tonight," Welsh peunoeth "every night" (Welsh nos "night" perhaps going back to *nokwt-stu-), Latin noct-, nox "night," Old Church Slavic noštĭ, Lithuanian naktìs, Greek nykt-, nýx, Sanskrit nakt-, nak, Hittite nekuz "in the evening" (from an oblique case stem *nekwt-)