night
n 1: the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark
outside [syn: {nighttime}, {dark}] [ant: {day}]
2: a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
3: the period spent sleeping; "I had a restless night"
4: the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit;
"three nights later he collapsed"
5: darkness; "it vanished into the night"
6: a shortening of nightfall; "they worked from morning to
night"
7: the time between sunset and midnight; "he watched television
every night"
8: goddess of night; daughter of Erebus [syn: {Nox}, {Night}]