Word

night, n.
(nights)
freq. cnt. 167

the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
<noun.time> freq. cnt.: 167 freq. cnt.: 163 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1

dark night nighttime

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

nightly

antonym

day

semantic pointers

hypernym

period, period of time, time period

part holonym

day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day

hyponym

weeknight wedding night

part meronym

evening late-night hour midnight small hours lights-out

darkness
<noun.state> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

night

sample sentences

"it vanished into the night"

semantic pointers

hypernym

darkness, dark

the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit
<noun.time> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

night

sample sentences

"three nights later he collapsed"

semantic pointers

hypernym

time unit, unit of time

the period spent sleeping
<noun.time> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

night

sample sentences

"I had a restless night"

semantic pointers

hypernym

period, period of time, time period

a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
<noun.time> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

night

semantic pointers

hypernym

period, period of time, time period

the time between sunset and midnight
<noun.time>

night

sample sentences

"he watched television every night"

semantic pointers

hypernym

period, period of time, time period

a shortening of nightfall
<noun.time>

night

sample sentences

"they worked from morning to night"

semantic pointers

hypernym

dusk, nightfall, twilight, gloaming, gloam, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle