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| Main Entry: | night |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | part of day after sundown and before sunrise |
| Synonyms: | bedtime, black*, blackness, dark, darkness, dim, evening, gloom, midnight, nightfall, nighttime, obscurity*, twilight, witching hour*, after dark, after hours, before dawn, dark hours, dead of night, dusk to dawn, duskiness, eventide, nighttide, pitch dark |
| Antonyms: | day |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dusk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early evening |
| Synonyms: | dark, gloom, night, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight, dimday, dimmet, eventide, gloaming |
| Antonyms: | dawn |
| Main Entry: | nocturnal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happening at night |
| Synonyms: | late, night, nightly, nighttime, after dark, night-loving |
| Notes: | nocturnal means belonging to or active during the night; diurnal means belonging to or active during the day |
| Main Entry: | twilight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | onset of darkness at end of day |
| Synonyms: | decline, dusk, ebb, end, evening, night, nightfall, sundown, sunset, afterglow, afterlight, crepuscular light, dimness, early evening, eventide, gloaming, half-light, last phase, late-afternoon |
| Antonyms: | daybreak, sunrise |
| Main Entry: | eve |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | night before |
| Synonyms: | brink, evening, night, threshold, verge, vigil, evening before |
| Main Entry: | nighttime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness |
| Synonyms: | bedtime, dusk, midnight, night, nightfall |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place, time without light |
| Synonyms: | darkness, dusk, evening, gloom, midnight, murk, night, nightfall, nighttime, obscurity, opacity, shade, twilight, witching hour, caliginosity, dead of night, dimness, duskiness, murkiness, semidarkness, shadows |
| Antonyms: | brightness, day, daylight, illumination, light, lightness, morning, daytime |
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