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(chiefly US military slang) An otherwise unspecified time of night; some time when it is dark out.
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(Internet slang, text messaging) Tonight.
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(Internet slang, text messaging) Tonight.
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(rare) The approach of evening.
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(Australia, rhyming slang) A bookmaker's clerk.
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(informal) A party or social event held in the afternoon.
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For the period of an entire night.
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(obsolete) In the night-time, at night.
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(US, Baja California) A time of night when one is tired or feels as if it were midnight before it actually is, usually considered to be between 8pm and 9pm local time.
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The anniversary of that night in subsequent years.
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(military, slang) A period of leave that ends at midnight.
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Alternative form of compline [(Christianity) The last of the canonical hours, sung just before retiring to bed.]
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(historical) A regulation in feudal Europe by which fires had to be covered up or put out at a certain fixed time in the evening, marked by the ringing of an evening bell.
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Synonym of chalk and cheese (“two things that are very different”)
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(idiomatic) Middle of the night.
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The middle of the night; dead of night.
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(UK, West Country, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset) The time in the evening just before dusk.
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(poetic or dialectal, Scotland) evening.
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(poetic, obsolete) Evening.
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Obsolete form of evening. [The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.]
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(archaic, poetic) Evening, night.
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Pronunciation spelling of evening. [The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.]
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The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.
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Occurring during or designed for the evening.
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Resembling or characteristic of evening.
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The characteristic of being most active and alert during the evening; being a night owl.
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(archaic, poetic) evening
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The light of evening; twilight.
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(rare, historical, Germanic paganism) Equinox.
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A religious service, most commonly seen in the Anglican or Episcopal Church, that takes place in the early hours of the evening; originally, and sometimes still, an alternative name for vespers or a service combining vespers and compline.
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(archaic, poetic, literary) evening
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(archaic) The time of evening.
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Toward evening; toward eventide.
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Commonplace or ordinary at night.
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(archaic, poetic) evening
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(poetic) evening; eventide
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(Scotland) The evening, between twilight and bedtime.
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(rare, nonstandard) Friday evening or night
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A night shift, especially one from midnight to 8 AM on a three-shift schedule.
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Alternative spelling of grey night [(astronomy) A night that does not become completely dark because the sun does not go further than 18° below the horizon.]
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Hesperus, the evening star
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(rare, nonstandard) A festal night.
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(astronomy, medicine) Within a single night.
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The period around Lady Day.
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(often used adverbially) The evening or night immediately before the present.
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of, or related to the late night time
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Alternative form of late-night [of, or related to the late night time]
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The prescribed bedtime for persons living in a boarding school or staying in a hospital.
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Intense and prolonged study or meditation; especially, late at night.
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(rare, humorous) midnight
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Taking place around midnight.
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(rare, nonstandard) Monday evening or night.
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To work on the side (at a secondary job), often in the evening or during the night.
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(Yorkshire, archaic) Alternative form of night [(countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.]
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(countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
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Alternative form of day and night [All the time; round the clock; unceasingly.]
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Alternative letter-case form of night of long knives (“purge”) used especially in reference to a specific one, particularly the 1934 one in Germany, but also e.g. the British one of 1962. [Synonym of night of the long knives]
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(idiomatic) 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.
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A regularly scheduled period of work, during evening or night hours.
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(chiefly US) That rides out at night, especially to carry out acts of violence.
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Alternative form of night sky [The sky as it is seen at night.]
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Alternative spelling of nighttime [The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night.]
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Nightfall, the point at which night begins.
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(intransitive) To become night or grow dark, as night.
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(archaic) The period of night; nighttime.
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The close of the day; the coming of night.
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As much as is produced or consumed throughout an entire night.
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(computing) A build of a software program with the latest changes, released every night.
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The nighttime landscape, or a depiction of this
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Alternative form of night sky [The sky as it is seen at night.]
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The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night.
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Work which is carried out at night.
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Informal spelling of night. [(countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.]
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Comprising a night and a day.
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A record of what passes in the night; a nightly journal.
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(Christianity) A portion of the psalter used during nocturns.
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Pronunciation spelling of night. [(countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.]
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(poetic, obsolete) midnight
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During the night at the present time; in modern nights.
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Alternative form of nychthemeron [A period of one day and one night, a date: in the West, this is a period of 24 consecutive hours.]
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Alternative spelling of nychthemeron [A period of one day and one night, a date: in the West, this is a period of 24 consecutive hours.]
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The fall of the evening.
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During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past.
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(US, historical) Synonym of Guy Fawkes Night.
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(rare, nonstandard) Saturday evening or night.
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Alternative form of school night [An evening before a typical school day; normally a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday night.]
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Alternative form of sennight [(archaic or obsolete) A period of seven days and nights; a week.]
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Alternative spelling of sennight [(archaic or obsolete) A period of seven days and nights; a week.]
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(archaic or obsolete) A period of seven days and nights; a week.
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A cocktail party held in the early evening.
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(rare, nonstandard) Sunday evening or night
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(dialect, informal) Alternative spelling of tonight [During the night following the current day.]
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Archaic spelling of tonight. [The nighttime of the current day or date; this night.]
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Archaic spelling of tonight. [The nighttime of the current day or date; this night.]
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The nighttime of the current day or date; this night.
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(rare or dialectal) The period between dusk and nightfall; twilight.
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(baseball) Of a doubleheader: occurring between the hours of twilight and night.
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(obsolete) Synonym of siesta: an afternoon nap.
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(UK, dialectal) Synonym of evening.
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(poetic, archaic) the evening, especially (Christianity) the time at which vespers is prayed
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Vespertine; occurring in the evening.
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(poetic) Of or related to the evening; that occurs in the evening.
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Alternative form of watchnight [(Christianity, historical) A monthly or quarterly religious service participated in by Methodists which extended past midnight.]
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Alternative form of watchnight. [(Christianity, historical) A monthly or quarterly religious service participated in by Methodists which extended past midnight.]
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(Christianity, historical) A monthly or quarterly religious service participated in by Methodists which extended past midnight.
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The very early morning; the early morning hours; the nighttime hours following midnight, when most people are asleep.
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(informal) The very early morning, just after midnight, when most people are asleep.
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(astronomy) A night with only civil twilight, where the sun does not go further than 6° below the horizon.
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(archaic) A preceding night.
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