1.Definition: a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom

Category: General

2.Definition: a shortening of nightfall

"They worked from morning to night"

Category: General

3.Definition: darkness

"It vanished into the night"

Category: General

4.Definition: Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx

Related Noun(s):nox

Category: People

5.Definition: the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit

"Three nights later he collapsed"

Category: General

6.Definition: the period spent sleeping

"I had a restless night"

Category: General

7.Definition: the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

Related Noun(s):dark, nighttime

Category: General

8.Definition: the time between sunset and midnight

"He watched television every night"

Category: General