Usually means: Period of darkness between sunsets.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. night: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. night: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. night: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. night: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Night, night: Vocabulary.com
  6. NIght, Night, night, night: Wordnik
  7. night: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Night, night: Wiktionary
  9. night: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. night: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. night: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Night: Dictionary.com
  13. night: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Night: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. night: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. night: Rhymezone
  18. night: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. night: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Night: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. night: Free Dictionary
  22. night: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. night: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. night: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. night: Dictionary.com
  26. night: Online Etymology Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  2. Night: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Night: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. night: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. night: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Night: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. night: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. night: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Night, The Night: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See nightless as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
noun:  (astronomy, countable) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
noun:  (law, countable) A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
noun:  (countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
noun:  (countable) A day, or at least a night.
noun:  (uncountable) Nightfall.
noun:  (uncountable) Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
noun:  (uncountable) A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
noun:  (sports, colloquial) A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.
verb:  To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.
noun:  The 92nd sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
noun:  (Germanic paganism) The goddess of the night in Heathenry.

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