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Night

(n) /naɪt/
Night

Meaning

The period from sunset to sunrise in each twenty-four hours.

Pronunciation

UK naɪt

US naɪt

Example Sentences

  • For a unique experience, buy a ticket for the Petra by Night tour during one night of your stay.
  • Three college students, down on their luck and in rent arrears, plotted, schemed, and grafted away night-after-night in an effort to avoid having their rental lease terminated and keep themselves off the streets.
  • Two million guests stay with Airbnb each night alone, making Airbnb, by far the biggest and most lucrative online rental marketplace in the world today.
  • These properties don't come cheap and are often sold out year-round, so move fast if you have the option to land yourself one of these dream-come-true properties, even if [it's] just for the night.
  • They spend four to five hours grazing and can consume 68 kg of grass each night.
  • Jupiter is the third brightest object in the night sky.
  • They have few sweat glands so they wisely tend to conserve their energy by resting during the day and become more active at night when it is cooler.
  • Lions have terrific night vision.
  • This gives them a distinct advantage over some prey species when hunting at night.
  • More than 100 free public schools are maintained, in addition to the night vocational and secondary schools and the [Manila] branch of the University of the [Philippines].

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