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Grammar : Noun
Spell : nahyt
Phonetic Transcription : naɪt



Definition of night

Origin :
  • Old English niht (West Saxon neaht, Anglian næht, neht) "night, darkness;" the vowel indicating that the modern word derives from oblique cases (genitive nihte, dative niht), from Proto-Germanic *nakht- (cf. Old Saxon and Old High German naht, Old Frisian and Dutch nacht, German Nacht, Old Norse natt, Gothic nahts).
  • The Germanic words are from PIE *nekwt- "night" (cf. Greek nuks "a night," Latin nox, Old Irish nochd, Sanskrit naktam "at night," Lithuanian naktis "night," Old Church Slavonic nosti, Russian noch', Welsh henoid "tonight"), according to Watkins, probably from a verbal root *neg- "to be dark, be night." For spelling with -gh- see fight.
  • The fact that the Aryans have a common name for night, but not for day (q.v.), is due to the fact that they reckoned by nights. [Weekley]
  • Cf. German Weihnachten "Christmas." In early times, the day was held to begin at sunset, so Old English monanniht "Monday night" was the night before Monday, or what we would call Sunday night.
  • To work nights preserves the Old English genitive of time. Night shift is attested from 1710 in the sense of "garment worn by a woman at night" (see shift (n.1)); meaning "gang of workers employed after dark" is from 1839. Night soil "excrement" (1770) is so called because it was removed (from cesspools, etc.) after dark. Night train attested from 1838. Night life "habitual nocturnal carousing" attested from 1852.
  • noun part of day after sundown and before sunrise
Example sentences :
  • Say, you come out with me some night jest in your workin' clothes.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • They were the last she heard sung by Paralus, the night Anaxagoras departed from Athens.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • At parting, she urged Eudora to share her apartment for the night.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • He was so good they shot him all up one night last fall over to Wardner.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Slept in snow-drift that night in wet clothes, mercury 40 below.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • It was the night you and the folks went to the opera with the Oldakers.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • You may have noticed that night at the Oldakers'—well, women, Mr. Bines, are uncertain.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • His nephew was securely disposed of for the night, being fastened in his chamber.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • They talked until late into the night of what he should "lay out" to do.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Many words of the talkative German were running in his mind from the night before.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

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