night

Other spellings

• (informal) nite

Pronunciation

• enPR: nīt
• IPA ^(key): /naɪt/
• SAMPA: /naIt/

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• Homophones: nite, knight

Noun

Singular night

Plural nights

A city at night

1. (countable & uncountable) Night is the opposite of day. It is the time between sunset and sunrise when the sky is dark.
   • Synonyms: nighttime and nite

   During the day, we'll go hiking on John Doe Mountain. At night, we'll come back to the hotel and get some sleep.

   There was a terrible accident in the night that woke all of us up.