Definition of night
1
:the time from dusk to dawn when no sunlight is visible
- The store is open all night.
2 a
:an evening or night taken as an occasion or point of time
- the opening night
b
:an evening set aside for a particular purpose
- Thursdays is game night in our house.
3 a
:the quality or state of being dark
- approached the enemy's camp under cover of night
b
:a condition or period felt to resemble the darkness of night: such as
(1)
:a period of dreary inactivity or affliction
- the glories of Roman civilization were lost in a gloomy night of ignorance, superstition, and barbarism
- —R. A. Hall
(2)
:absence of moral values
- … that night which has for many centuries obscured our holy religion …
- —Joseph Priestley
c
:the beginning of darkness :nightfall
- worked in the fields until night
