n. | 1. | That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light. | |||
2. | Darkness; obscurity; concealment. | ||||
3. | Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance. | ||||
4. | A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.
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2. | night - the time between sunset and midnight; "he watched television every night" | |
3. | night - the period spent sleeping; "I had a restless night" | |
4. | night - the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit; "three nights later he collapsed" | |
5. | night - darkness; "it vanished into the night" | |
6. | night - a shortening of nightfall; "they worked from morning to night" | |
7. | night - a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom | |
8. | Night - Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx Synonyms: Nox |
NIGHT. That space of time during which the sun is below the horizon of the earth, except, that short space which precedes its rising and follows its setting, during which, by its light, the countenance of a man may be discerned. I Hale, P. C. 550; 3 Inst. 63; 4 Bl. Com. 224; 1 Hawk. P. C. 101; 3 Chit. Cr. Law, 1093; 2 Leach, 710; Bac. Ab. Burglary, D; 2 East, P. C. 509; 2 Russ. Cr. 32; Rosc. Cr. Ev. 278; 7 Dane's Ab. 134.
To dream of night, signifies some major setbacks and obstacles in achieving your goals. You may find that some issues you are facing are not all that clear and you need to put them to rest for awhile before a decision is made. *Please also see DarknessEgyptian darkness, Erebus, all the time, all-night, blackness, ceaselessly, charcoal, coal, continually, continuously, crow, dark, dark of night, darkness, darkness visible, dead of night, dusk, ebon, ebony, endlessly, evening, evensong, eventide, gloaming, incessantly, ink, intense darkness, jet, lightlessness, midnight, moonlessness, night and day, night-fallen, nightfall, nightlong, nightly, nighttide, nighttime, nocturnal, obscure, obscure darkness, obscurity, pitch, pitch-darkness, pitchy darkness, raven, round-the-clock, sable night, sloe, smoke, smut, soot, starlessness, sundown, sunlessness, sunset, swarthiness, tar, tenebrosity, tenebrousness, the palpable obscure, total darkness, twilight, unceasingly, unendingly, velvet darkness, vespers