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From Middle English nyght tyme, nyȝttyme, equivalent to night + time. Compare Dutch nachttijd, German Nachtzeit, Danish nattetid, Swedish nattetid. Compare also Middle English nyȝter tyme (“nighttime”), from Old Norse náttartími, nætrtími (“nighttime”).
nighttime (countable and uncountable, plural nighttimes)
- The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night.
1986, R.E.M. (lyrics and music), “Hyena”, in Lifes Rich Pageant:
Nighttime fell like the opening / In the final act of the beginning of time
1996, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 50, number 7, page 52:
Smith Barney, for example, goes so far as to shift the hours during which taxi rides home are expensable as nighttime lengthens and shortens, says Moszkowski.
- nightertale, nighttide; see also Thesaurus:nighttime
- day, daytime; see also Thesaurus:daytime
hours of darkness
- Arabic: لَيْلُ (ar) m (laylu)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܲܝܠܹܐ m (layle)
- Chinese:
- Czech: noc (cs) f, noční doba f
- Finnish: yö (fi), yöaika (fi)
- French: nuit (fr) f
- German: Nacht (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: νύξ f (núx)
- Interlingua: nocte (ia)
- Japanese: 夜間 (ja) (やかん, yakan), 夜分 (ja) (やぶん, yabun)
- Maranao: kagagawi'i
- Norwegian: natt (no) m or f
- Persian: شبهنگام (šab-hengâm)
- Polish: noc (pl) f
- Portuguese: noite (pt) f
- Russian: ночь (ru) f (nočʹ), ночно́е вре́мя n (nočnóje vrémja)
- Swedish: natt (sv) c, nattetid (sv) c
- Turkish: gece (tr)
nighttime (not comparable)
- Pertaining to nighttime; appropriate to the night.
- Happening during the night.