Definition of night night in English English dictionary
- goodnight or good night
- night night sleep tight don't let the bedbugs bite
- sleep well, good night and sweet dreams
- Ancestors Night
- A modern pagan festival, especially celebrated by followers of Heathenry in late October or early November based on the English folk customs and ancestor worship
Ancestors Night marks the end of summer and the beginning of winter.
- Badge Night
- A night several days before bonfire night in which members of a bonfire society congregate at their headquarters (usually a pub) to be initiated with the current year's badges and receive information on the upcoming event
- Burns night
- An event held on the evening of 25th January in celebration of the Scottish poet Robert Burns (born on that day in 1759), usually involving Scottish foods and recitals of his poetry
- Guy Fawkes night
- a celebration, on the 5th of November, to remember the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605
- Mothers Night
- A modern pagan festival celebrated by followers of Heathenry on or around 20th December honouring the goddesses and the mothers of the household
- Mothers Night
- A Anglo-Saxon midwinter feast recorded by Bede
- Night
- The goddess of the night in Heathenry
- Saturday night special
- Alternative spelling of Saturday-night special. An easily obtained handgun
- Saturday-night special
- An inexpensive, easily obtained handgun
- Tobias night
- A wedding night on which consummation of the marriage is postponed (usually in plural)
- Walpurgis night
- Walpurgisnacht ("Walpurga's night"), a feast of witchcraft in German folklore; any orgiastic or bacchanalian party
- all cats are gray at night
- Variant of all cats are grey in the dark
- all cats are grey at night
- Variant of all cats are grey in the dark
- all-night
- Lasting throughout the whole night
an all-night party.
- all-night-man
- a body snatcher or grave robber
- amateur night
- A session in a club, theatre etc. in which amateurs perform, rather than professionals
- bank night
- An event where patrons are enticed to buy entry tickets into some venue, for example a movie theater, with the anticipation that they will be entered into a drawing to win an amount of money if their ticket is drawn and they are on-site at the time of the winning
- because you touch yourself at night
- Used to humourously deflect a request for a reason
Museum Guide: Because you touch yourself at night.
- bonfire night
- a celebration, on the 5th of November, to remember the failure of the gunpowder plot of 1605
- call it a night
- To cease what one has been doing for the night
- call it a night
- To go to bed to sleep
- date night
- An opportunity for a married couple, especially one with children, to go out on a date
- day and night
- Opposite; completely different
- day and night
- all the time; round the clock; unceasingly
- day for night
- In the daytime, with a blue filter, causing the scene to look as if it were shot in moonlight
The Sandcrawler scene in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope was shot day for night.
- day for night
- A cinematographic technique in which a crew films in a high-contrast situation, typically in the early morning or late afternoon, with a blue filter, causing the scene to look as if it were shot in moonlight
- dead of night
- Middle of the night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
- fly-by-night
- A creatures which flies at night; a nocturnal flier or traveler
- fly-by-night
- Businesses that appear and disappear rapidly, or that give an impression of transience
- fly-by-night
- One who departs or flees at night in order to avoid creditors, law enforcement etc. (often used attributively)
Do not give your credit card number to that fly-by-night operation.
- fly-by-night
- Traveling businessmen and tradesmen
- good night
- A farewell said in the evening or before going to sleep
- hen night
- The female equivalent of a stag night
- hens' night
- The female equivalent of a stag night
- how can you sleep at night
- A rhetorical question, used to tell someone that they should feel guilty about something
- ladies of the night
- plural form of lady of the night
- lady of the night
- prostitute
that's what they call her the lady of the night - Donna Summer - Lady Of The Night.
- last night
- The nighttime pertaining to the day before today. The night before the current day. Yesterday night. Yesternight
- last night
- During the previous day’s nighttime. During the night before today
“We partied last night.”.
- morning, noon and night
- Constantly; ceaselessly; without stopping
They toiled morning, noon and night to sell their idea and make it work.
- night
- An evening or night spent at a particular activity
a night on the town.
- night
- Darkness
The cat disappeared into the night.
- night
- The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark
- night
- A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a hotel or other accommodation
We stayed at the Hilton for five nights.
- night
- Short for good night
Night all! Thanks for a great evening!.
- night
- Nightfall
from noon till night.
- night and day
- all the time; round the clock; unceasingly
- night bird
- a type of bird associated with the night
- night bird
- a human denizen of night
Bradley assenting, went with him into an early public-house, haunted by unsavoury smells of musty hay and stale straw, where returning carts, farmers' men, gaunt dogs, fowls of a beery breed, and certain human night-birds fluttering home to roost, were solacing themselves after their several manners; and where not one of the night-birds hovering about the sloppy bar failed to discern at a glance in the passion-wasted night-bird with respectable feathers, the worst night-bird of all.
- night birds
- plural form of night bird
- night blindness
- The optic condition nyctalopia, the inability to see clearly in faint light, as at night
- night blindnesses
- plural form of night blindness
- night emission
- an ejaculation or orgasm while asleep, often accompanied by an erotic dream
- night emissions
- plural form of night emission
- night glass
- A spyglass or binoculars with large diameter lenses, used to see objects better in the dark
- night glasses
- plural form of night glass
- night hawks
- plural form of night hawk
- night letter
- an unsigned leaflet distributed clandestinely
- night out
- Going away from one's usual residence for an entire night, and returning the next day
- night out
- Spending the evening away from one's usual residence. The phrase typically implies going to a restaurant, going to watch entertainment, or other types of urban nightlife, starting from about 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and lasting until approximately 11: 00 pm or later
- night owl
- One who stays up late at night or goes to bed late
He's a night owl. He would rather stay up until 6am than wake up at that time.
- night owls
- plural form of night owl
- night people
- plural form of night person
- night person
- A person whose preference or custom is to remain awake and active during the evening and early morning (night) hours, and who usually sleeps during part of the daytime
I've always been a night person—my mother put me in afternoon kindergarten because she couldn’t get me up in the morning.
- night school
- A school, typically used for the purpose of continuing education with classes held predominately in the evening to accommodate students with typical day shift work schedules
- night schools
- plural form of night school
- night shift
- A group of workers who work during the night
- night shift
- The period in which they work
- night soil
- Human faeces
The flow of nitrogen from night-soil in rural China is valuable, whereas human excrement in an urban center is a pollution problem.
- night soil man
- A person whose occupation it was to collect the contents of chamber pots (faeces) in the morning from domestic households, principally in the 18th and 19th centuries
- night soil men
- plural form of night soil man
- night stick
- A stick used as a truncheon by police
- night terror
- A sleeping disorder, where sleep is interrupted by anxiety, panic or screaming
- night terror
- A nightmare
- night terrors
- plural form of night terror
- night vision
- The ability, either by technology or by superpowers, to see in a dark environment
- night watch
- a watch kept on some premises, or on a town, by guards during the night
- night watch
- the guards on such a watch
- night watches
- plural form of night watch
- night watchman
- A person who guards (usually at a building) at night
- night watchman
- Prior to police forces, a person appointed by a town or city to walk the streets at night and guard the burghers from felons and robbers
- night watchman
- The last batsman in a three or five day game to play on a particular day and thus carry over the batting to the following day
- night watchman state
- Political philosophy. A form of government where the government's responsibilities are so minimal that they cannot be reduced much further without becoming a form of anarchy
- night watchmen
- plural form of night watchman
- night wind
- A wind that blows at night
'T is sweet to listen as the night-winds creep / From leaf to leaf; 't is sweet to view on high / The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky.
- night-bat
- A ghost, an evil spirit
- night-bat
- A (night-flying) bat
there were found divers populous nations, in farre differing climates, that lived upon them; made provision of them, and carefully fed them; as also of grasse-hoppers, pissemires, lizards, and night-bats.
- night-bat
- A large nocturnal moth
- night-blind
- unable to see clearly in low light; suffering from night blindness
- night-glass
- Alternative spelling of night glass
- night-rail
- A loose robe worn as a nightgown
- night-raven
- A bird active at night, sometimes identified with a specific species such as a night-owl or nightjar, and sometimes seen as a separate animal in its own right
sad Horrour with grim hew, / Did alwayes sore, beating his yron wings; / And after him Owles and Night-rauens flew, / The hatefull messengers of heauy things .
- night-soil
- Alternative spelling of night soil
- nighty night
- Good night
- nighty-night
- Alternative spelling of nighty night
- one-night stand
- An occasion when a performer or team of them (especially in vaudeville) expects to perform at a theater for a single evening
- one-night stand
- A single sexual encounter between two individuals, where at least one of the parties has no immediate intention or expectation of establishing a longer-term sexual or romantic relationship. As the phrase implies, the relationship lasts for only one night
- one-night stands
- plural form of one-night stand
- polar night
- A period of darkness that occurs in polar regions north from the Arctic Circle and south from the Antarctic Circle and during which the sun stays below the horizon
- school night
- An evening before a typical school day; normally a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday night
Jamey has to go to bed at 9:00 on school nights, but on Friday and Saturday he gets to stay up as late as he wants.
- stag night
- bachelor party
- stay the night
- to spend a night at someone else's home
If you can't find another place to crash, you can stay the night at mine if you like.
- the night is young
- It is not very late at night and there is plenty of time for other activities
- thief in the night
- Something stealthy or that occurs without warning. (Usually used with like.)
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
- thieves in the night
- plural form of thief in the night
- things that go bump in the night
- Frightening imagined creatures; ghosts or other supernatural beings
But most of all I recall the haunting magic of the lanterns and the whispered tales of ghosties, goblins, and things that go bump in the night with which we tried to frighten each other.
- tomorrow night
- The night of the day after the present day
- tomorrow night
- During the night of the day after the present day
- watch night
- The night during which January 1 enters
The first watch night services ever held in Grace Protestant Episcopal Church were but poorly attended,... .
- wrongs darker than death or night
- Atrocious, unrelieved, unspeakable evils
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;To love, and bear; to hope till Hope createsFrom its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor flatter, nor repent;This, like thy glory, Titan, is to beGood, great and joyous, beautiful and free;This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.
- good night
- hello! goodbye!
- night
- {n} the time of darkness, gloominess, death
- night dew
- {n} a dew that falls in the night
- night shade
- {n} the name of many plants, some of them poisonous
- night out
- an evening on which a domestic servant is free to go out
- night porter
- A porter on duty during the night
- the morning after the night before
- the morning after a party, when you feel ill because you were drunk.the feeling you have in the morning after the night before when you have had too many intoxicating substances.it refers to a memorable occasion on the previous evening. and it is used the following morning in commentary
