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nightfall

noun
/ˈnaɪt.fɔl/

Etymology

From night + fall. Cf. dewfall.

  1. inherited from *fallą✻
  2. inherited from fealle — “trap, snare”
  3. inherited from feall
  4. inherited from fal
  5. inherited from *h₃elh₁-✻ — “to collapse, fall; to destroy”
  6. inherited from *fallaną✻ — “to fall”
  7. inherited from *fallan✻ — “to fall”
  8. inherited from feallan — “to fall, fail, decay, die, attack”
  9. inherited from fallen
  10. compounded as nightfall — “night + fall”

Definitions

  1. The close of the day

    The close of the day; the coming of night.

    • at nightfall

  2. Nocturnal emission.

The neighborhood

Derived

night-falling

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nightfall. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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