Dictionary Entry
night
night is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
- 2noun
Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
- 3noun
Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
- 4noun
A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.
- 5noun
The period after the close of life; death.
- 6noun
A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.
- 7noun
Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx
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- 8noun
darkness
"it vanished into the night"
- 9noun
the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit
"three nights later he collapsed"
- 10noun
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
- 11noun
the time between sunset and midnight
"he watched television every night"
- 12noun
the period spent sleeping
"I had a restless night"
- 13noun
a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
- 14noun
a shortening of nightfall
"they worked from morning to night"
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