| Library / English Dictionary |
NIGHT
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx
Synonyms:
Night; Nox
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Roman deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Darkness
Example:
it vanished into the night
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("night" is a kind of...):
dark; darkness (absence of light or illumination)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit
Example:
three nights later he collapsed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("night" is a kind of...):
time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
Synonyms:
dark; night; nighttime
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("night" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Meronyms (parts of "night"):
evening (the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way)
late-night hour (the latter part of night)
midnight (12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night)
small hours (the hours just after midnight)
lights-out (a prescribed bedtime)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "night"):
weeknight (any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday)
wedding night (the night after the wedding when bride and groom sleep together)
Holonyms ("night" is a part of...):
24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)
Antonym:
day (the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside)
Derivation:
nightly (happening every night)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The time between sunset and midnight
Example:
he watched television every night
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("night" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Sense 6
Meaning:
The period spent sleeping
Example:
I had a restless night
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("night" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Sense 7
Meaning:
A period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("night" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Sense 8
Meaning:
A shortening of nightfall
Example:
they worked from morning to night
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("night" is a kind of...):
crepuscle; crepuscule; dusk; evenfall; fall; gloam; gloaming; nightfall; twilight (the time of day immediately following sunset)
Context examples:
Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI) History; are your symptoms worse at night?
(MNSI - Symptoms Worse at Night, NCI Thesaurus)
A question about whether an individual has or had night sweats.
(Have Night Sweats, NCI Thesaurus)
The mole has tiny covered eyes that are believed to be able to distinguish night from day, and not much else.
(Mole, NCI Thesaurus)
Is he/she up at night?
(NPI - Difficulty Sleeping, NCI Thesaurus)
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient awaken you during the night?
(NPI - Awaken You During the Night, NCI Thesaurus)
They often occur after exercise or at night, lasting a few seconds to several minutes.
(Muscle Cramps, NIH)
At other times, they can cause lung symptoms similar to tuberculosis: • Cough • Weight loss • Coughing up blood or mucus • Weakness or fatigue • Fever and chills • Night sweats • Lack of appetite and weight loss
(Mycobacterial Infections, NIH)
Hamilton Depression Rating Scale 17 Item (HAMD-17) Insomnia; middle of the night.
(HAMD-17 - Insomnia - Middle Night, NCI Thesaurus)
Hamilton Depression Rating Scale 17 Item (HAMD-17) Insomnia; early in the night.
(HAMD-17 - Insomnia - Early Night, NCI Thesaurus)
Miss Temple's whole attention was absorbed by the patients: she lived in the sick-room, never quitting it except to snatch a few hours' rest at night.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
