night

• after dark
• after hours
• bedtime
• before dawn
• black
• blackness
• blackout
• brownout
• candlelight
• cloudiness
• crepuscle
• crepuscule
• dark
• dark hours
• darkness
• dead of night
• dimness
• dimout
• dullness
• dulness
• dusk
• dusk to dawn
• duskiness
• eve
• evenfall
• evening
• eventide
• faintness
• fogginess
• gloaming
• gloom
• gloominess
• grayness
• half-light
• haziness
• late
• midnight
• mistiness
• murk
• murkiness
• nightfall
• nightly
• nighttide
• nighttime
• nocturnal
• obscurity
• overnight
• paleness
• pitch dark
• pitch-darkness
• semidarkness
• shade
• shadiness
• shadows
• somberness
• sundown
• sunset
• twilight
• umbra
• umbrage
• witching hour

• afternoon
• aurora
• blaze
• brightness
• brilliance
• cockcrow
• daily
• dawn
• dawning
• day
• daybreak
• daylight
• daytime
• diurnal
• effulgence
• forenoon
• glare
• glow
• high noon
• illumination
• incandescence
• light
• lightness
• luminance
• luminescence
• luminosity
• luminousness
• midday
• moonlight
• morn
• morning
• noon
• noonday
• noontide
• noontime
• radiance
• radiancy
• shine
• starlight
• sunlight
• sunrise
• sunshine
• sunup

• noun
  1. The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
  2. (Astronomy) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
  3. (Legal) Often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
  4. An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
  5. A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a place away from home, e.g. a hotel.
  6. Nightfall.
  7. Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
  8. A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
  9. A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.
• verb
  1. To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.
• interjection
  1. Ellipsis of good night.

• The stars shine brightly at night.
• She prefers to work late into the night.
• The city looks completely different at night.
• We went for a walk under the moonlight night.
• The quiet of the night helped him concentrate.

umbra

dark

darkness

half-light

obscureness

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