Thesaurus: night

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1. n. That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
2. n. Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
3. n. Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
4. n. A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.
5. n. The period after the close of life; death.
6. n. A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.
7. n. the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
8. n. a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
9. n. the period spent sleeping
10. n. the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit
11. n. darkness
12. n. a shortening of nightfall