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nighttime

[ nahyt-tahym ]

noun

  1. the time times between evening and morning.


adjective

  1. occurring, done, presented, etc., during the night, especially the hours before midnight.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nighttime1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; night, time
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Example Sentences

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Nocturnal animals obviously depend on having adequate darkness for the kind of eyesight they've evolved and the nighttime behavior they've evolved to carry out in the dark of night.

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I discourage the elaborate nighttime routines because I think they’re hard to maintain and sustain.

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When Disneyland celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Walt Disney Co. throughout 2023, it did so with a new nighttime fireworks show, “Wondrous Journeys.”

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Gunn directs the film in the aesthetic of a nighttime family TV drama.

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Others said the flames grew so big so fast, in a nighttime firefight with powerful gusts scattering embers deep into neighborhoods, that no number of firefighters could have handled it.

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