night

noun

1. 1

   Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx

   it vanished into the night

2. 2

   darkness

   it vanished into the night

3. 3

   the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit

   three nights later he collapsed

4. 4

   the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

5. 5

   the time between sunset and midnight

   he watched television every night

6. 6

   the period spent sleeping

   I had a restless night

7. 7

   a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom

8. 8

   a shortening of nightfall

   they worked from morning to night