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night

noun
/ˈnaɪ̯t/US/ˈnɐɪ̯t/

Etymology

From Middle English nighte, night, nyght, niȝt, naht, from Old English niht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht (“night”), from Proto-Germanic *nahts (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”). Cognates Cognate with Scots nicht (“night”), Yola neeght, nieght, nyeght (“night”), North Frisian naacht, Nacht, noach, nåcht (“night”), Saterland Frisian Noacht (“night”), West Frisian nacht (“night”), Cimbrian and Dutch nacht (“night”), German and Low German Nacht (“night”), Luxembourgish Nuecht (“night”), Mòcheno nòcht (“night”), Vilamovian naocht (“night”), Yiddish נאַכט (nakht, “night”), Danish nat (“night”), Faroese nátt (“night”), Icelandic nátt, nótt (“night”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish natt (“night”), Scanian nøtt (“night”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (nahts, “night”); also Breton noz (“night”), Cornish and Welsh nos (“night”), Irish anocht (“tonight”), Manx noght (“tonight”), Scottish Gaelic a-nochd, an nochd (“tonight”), Latin nox (“night”) (whence English nox, a doublet), Greek νύχτα (nýchta, “night”), Albanian natë (“night”), Latgalian and Latvian nakts (“night”), Lithuanian naktis (“night”), Belarusian ноч (noč, “night”), Bulgarian нощ (nošt, “night”), Czech, Polish, and Slovak noc (“night”), Macedonian ноќ (noḱ, “night”), Russian ночь (nočʹ, “night”), Serbo-Croatian ноћ, noć (“night”), Slovene noč (“night”), Ukrainian ніч (nič, “night”), Tocharian A nakcu (“last night; at night”), Tocharian B nekcīye (“last night; at night”), Hittite 𒉈𒆪𒊻 (nekuz, “evening, nightfall; dawn, twilight”), Sanskrit नक्त् (nákt).

  1. inherited from *nókʷts✻ — “night”
  2. inherited from *nahts✻ — “night”
  3. inherited from *naht✻ — “night”
  4. inherited from niht
  5. inherited from nighte

Definitions

  1. The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.

    • Most animals are awake at day and sleep at night.
    • The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.

  2. The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun…

    The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.

  3. A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset,…

    A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.

  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. An evening or night spent at a particular activity.

      • a night on the town

    2. A day, or at least a night.

      • I stayed my friend's house for three nights.

    3. Nightfall.

      • from noon till night

    4. Darkness (due to it being nighttime).

      • The cat disappeared into the night.

    5. A dark blue colour, midnight blue.

    6. A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.

    7. Ellipsis of good night.

      • Night, y'all! Thanks for a great evening!

    8. To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.

      • So I took seat and ate somewhat of my vivers, my horse also feeding upon his fodder, and we nighted in that spot and next morning I set out[.]

    9. The 92nd sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

    10. The goddess of the night in Heathenry.

      • "In this prayer, Sigdrifa calls upon powers of Nature - Day, Night, Earth - and the gods and goddesses as a group.
      • Hail to Night and her daughters.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at night. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at night. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at night

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA