Kids.Net.Au - Dictionary > Definition: night

Dictionary

Definition of night

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

Similar Words: Nox, Night, nighttime, dark

Hyponyms: weeknight, wedding night

Part Meronyms: day, twenty-four hours, solar day, mean solar day

Anagrams: thing

Language Translations:
Albanian: natë		Armenian: գիշեր
Basque: gau		Belarusian: нощ
Bosnian: noć and tama		Bulgarian: нощ
Catalan: nit		Chinese: 夜晚
Croatian: noć		Danish: aften and nat and overnatning
Dutch: avondje and hotelovernachting and nacht and nachtelijke duisternis		Esperanto: nokto
Estonian: öö		Finnish: ilta and pimeys and yö
French: nuit and soirée		German: Abend and Übernachtung and Nacht
Greek: νύχτα		Hebrew: לילה
Hindi: रात		Hungarian: éj and éjszakázás and megszállás and sötétség
Icelandic: nótt		Irish: oíche
Italian: notte		Japanese: 夜 and 一晩 and 一泊
Korean: 밤		Latin: nox
Latvian: nakts		Lithuanian: naktis
Macedonian: sc=Cyrl		Malay: bermalam and malam
Malayalam: രാത്രി		Maltese: lejl and lejla
Norwegian: aften and mørke and natt and overnatting		Polish: noc
Portuguese: diária and escuridão and noitada and noite		Romanian: noapte
Russian: sc=Cyrl		Slovak: noc and večer
Slovene: noč and nočitev and tema		Spanish: noche and oscuridad and tarde
Swahili: usiku		Swedish: natt
Tagalog: gabi and kadiliman		Telugu: రాత్రి
Ukrainian: sc=Cyrl		Vietnamese: tối and đêm
Welsh: nos

Search Dictionary

Search the meaning/definition of over one hundred thousand words!

Random Word

plug means an old or over-worked horse; an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire; blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tight... more

Find words starting with:

A
B
C

D
E
F

G
H
I

J
K
L

M
N
O

P
Q
R

S
T
U

V
W
X

Y
Z