night
- 01 A2 Elementary
n.an evening spent doing a particular activity or attending an event.
n.a period of time during the evening dedicated to a specific social activity or professional event.
Simple“We are having a movie night at my house this Friday.”
In context“The university is hosting a careers night to help graduating students network with potential employers in the tech sector.”
- 02 B2 Upper Intermediate
n.the state of being dark, especially when the sun has gone down.
n.the quality or state of darkness associated with the absence of sunlight.
Simple“The thief disappeared into the night before the police arrived.”
In context“The ancient forest was swallowed by the approaching night, leaving the hikers to rely entirely on their headlamps.”
- 03 C2 Proficiency
v.to stay or sleep somewhere for the night.
v.to spend the night at a specific location; to overnight.
Simple“The travellers decided to night in a small village before continuing their journey.”
In context“In the old tales, the knight would night at any hospitable cottage he found along the forest path.”
UsageThis verb is intransitive and rarely used in modern standard English.
Usage night sky · night of the shooting · night of my life
From Middle English nighte, night, nyght, niȝt, naht, from Old English niht, from Proto-West Germanic naht (“night”), from Proto-Germanic nahts (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”). Cognates Cognate with Scots nicht (“night”), Yola neeght, nieght, nyeght (“night”), North Frisian naacht, Nacht, noach, nåcht (“night”), Saterland Frisian Noacht (“night”), West Frisian nacht (“night”), Cimbrian, Dutch nacht (“night”), German, Low German Nacht (“night”), Luxembourgish Nuecht (“night”), Mòcheno nòcht (“night”), Vilamovian naocht (“night”), Yiddish נאַכט (nakht, “night”), Danish nat (“night”), Faroese nátt (“night”), Icelandic nátt, nótt (“night”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish natt (“night”), Scanian nøtt (“night”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (nahts, “night”); also Breton noz (“night”), Cornish and Welsh nos (“night”), Irish anocht (“tonight”), Manx noght (“tonight”), Scottish Gaelic a-nochd, an nochd (“tonight”), Latin nox (“night”) (whence English nox, a doublet), Greek νύχτα (nýchta, “night”), Albanian natë (“night”), Latgalian and Latvian nakts (“night”), Lithuanian naktis (“night”), Belarusian ноч (noč, “night”), Bulgarian нощ (nošt, “night”), Czech, Polish, and Slovak noc (“night”), Macedonian ноќ (noḱ, “night”), Russian ночь (nočʹ, “night”), Serbo-Croatian ноћ, noć (“night”), Slovene noč (“night”), Ukrainian ніч (nič, “night”), Tocharian A nakcu (“last night; at night”), Tocharian B nekcīye (“last night; at night”), Hittite 𒉈𒆪𒊻 (nekuz, “evening, nightfall; dawn, twilight”), Sanskrit नक्त् (nákt).
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.