nighttime

night·time

noun, often attributive \-ˌtīm\

: the time of darkness between one day and the next : the time of day when no light from the sun can be seen

Full Definition of NIGHTTIME

:  the time from dusk to dawn

Examples of NIGHTTIME

1. The animal hunts in the nighttime.
2. <before electricity, gas lamps were used for illumination during the nighttime>

First Known Use of NIGHTTIME

14th century

Related to NIGHTTIME

Synonyms

dark, darkness, night

Antonyms

day, daytime

Related Words

dusk, evening, gloaming, nightfall, twilight; midnight

Near Antonyms

dawn, daybreak, sunrise, sunup; forenoon, morning; high noon, midday, noon, noonday, noontide, noontime; afternoon

Other Calendar Terms

antedate, estival, gloaming, luster, sesquicentennial

Rhymes with NIGHTTIME

airtime, all-time, bedtime, begrime, big time, big-time, birdlime, buy time, call time, crunch time, cut time, daytime, downtime, dreamtime, drive time, enzyme, eye rhyme, face time, flextime, foretime, free-climb, full-time, half dime, halftime, hang time, hate crime, hill climb, in time, key lime, lifetime, longtime, lunchtime, make time, Mannheim, mark time, Maytime, mealtime, meantime, Mülheim, noontime, old-time, onetime, on time, part-time, pastime, peacetime, Pforzheim, playtime, post time, prime time, quicklime, quick time, ragtime, real time, rock climb, schooltime, seedtime, showtime, sight rhyme, small-time, sometime, Sondheim, space-time, springtime, sublime, teatime, two-time, uptime, Waldheim, war crime, wartime, wind chime