"nighttime" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈnaɪtˌtaɪm/, [ˈnaɪʔtaɪm]
Etymology: From Middle English nyght tyme, nyȝttyme, equivalent to night + time. Compare Dutch nachttijd, German Nachtzeit, Danish nattetid, Swedish nattetid. Compare also Middle English nyȝter tyme (“nighttime”), from Old Norse náttartími, nætrtími (“nighttime”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|nyght tyme}} Middle English nyght tyme, {{m|enm|nyȝttyme}} nyȝttyme, {{compound|en|night|time}} night + time, {{cog|nl|nachttijd}} Dutch nachttijd, {{cog|de|Nachtzeit}} German Nachtzeit, {{cog|da|nattetid}} Danish nattetid, {{cog|sv|nattetid}} Swedish nattetid, {{cog|enm|nyȝter tyme|t=nighttime}} Middle English nyȝter tyme (“nighttime”), {{cog|non|náttartími}} Old Norse náttartími, {{m|non|nætrtími|t=nighttime}} nætrtími (“nighttime”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} nighttime (not comparable)
  1. Pertaining to nighttime; appropriate to the night. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms (pertaining to nighttime): night Translations (pertaining to nighttime, appropriate to the night): νυκτερινός (nukterinós) (Ancient Greek), noční (Czech), nokta (Esperanto), éjszakai (Hungarian), éjjeli (Hungarian), ночно́й (nočnój) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-nighttime-en-adj-yEvLOJAO Disambiguation of 'pertaining to nighttime': 100 0 Disambiguation of 'pertaining to nighttime, appropriate to the night': 93 7
  2. Happening during the night. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Time Synonyms (happening during the night): night, nocturnal Translations (happening during the night): νυκτερινός (nukterinós) (Ancient Greek), noční (Czech), éjszakai (Hungarian), éjjeli (Hungarian), ночно́й (nočnój) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-nighttime-en-adj-eksBDjSC Disambiguation of Time: 0 47 53 Disambiguation of 'happening during the night': 8 92 Disambiguation of 'happening during the night': 7 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: night time, night-time

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈnaɪtˌtaɪm/, [ˈnaɪʔtaɪm] Forms: nighttimes [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English nyght tyme, nyȝttyme, equivalent to night + time. Compare Dutch nachttijd, German Nachtzeit, Danish nattetid, Swedish nattetid. Compare also Middle English nyȝter tyme (“nighttime”), from Old Norse náttartími, nætrtími (“nighttime”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|nyght tyme}} Middle English nyght tyme, {{m|enm|nyȝttyme}} nyȝttyme, {{compound|en|night|time}} night + time, {{cog|nl|nachttijd}} Dutch nachttijd, {{cog|de|Nachtzeit}} German Nachtzeit, {{cog|da|nattetid}} Danish nattetid, {{cog|sv|nattetid}} Swedish nattetid, {{cog|enm|nyȝter tyme|t=nighttime}} Middle English nyȝter tyme (“nighttime”), {{cog|non|náttartími}} Old Norse náttartími, {{m|non|nætrtími|t=nighttime}} nætrtími (“nighttime”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} nighttime (countable and uncountable, plural nighttimes)
  1. The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Night, Time, Times of day Synonyms: nightertale, nighttide, night, nighttime, scotoperiod [biology, natural-sciences], skotoperiod [biology, natural-sciences] Hyponyms: early morning, evening, midnight Holonyms: day Meronyms: compline [historical] [Christianity], vigil [historical] [Christianity], matins [historical] [Christianity] Derived forms: night-times Related terms: twilight Translations (hours of darkness): νύξ (núx) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), لَيْلُ (laylu) [masculine] (Arabic), ܠܲܝܠܹܐ (layle) [masculine] (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic), 夜裡 (Chinese Mandarin), 夜里 (yèli) (Chinese Mandarin), 夜間 (Chinese Mandarin), 夜间 (yèjiān) (Chinese Mandarin), noc [feminine] (Czech), noční doba [feminine] (Czech), (Finnish), yöaika (Finnish), nuit [feminine] (French), Nacht [feminine] (German), nocte (Interlingua), 夜間 (yakan) (alt: やかん) (Japanese), 夜分 (yabun) (alt: やぶん) (Japanese), kagagawi'i (Maranao), natt [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian), شبهنگام (šab-hengâm) (Persian), noc [feminine] (Polish), noite [feminine] (Portuguese), ночь (nočʹ) [feminine] (Russian), ночно́е вре́мя (nočnóje vrémja) [neuter] (Russian), natt [common-gender] (Swedish), nattetid [common-gender] (Swedish), gece (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-nighttime-en-noun-VyLMwbAZ Disambiguation of Night: 12 35 53 Disambiguation of Time: 0 47 53 Disambiguation of Times of day: 6 20 75 Categories (other): Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, English endocentric compounds, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English exocentric compounds Disambiguation of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 12 22 65 Disambiguation of English endocentric compounds: 32 28 40 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 9 78 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 13 9 78 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 11 8 82 Disambiguation of English exocentric compounds: 19 16 65
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: night time, night-time

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1986, R.E.M. (lyrics and music), “Hyena”, in Lifes Rich Pageant",
          "text": "Nighttime fell like the opening / In the final act of the beginning of time",
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          "ref": "1996, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 50, number 7, page 52",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "ܠܲܝܠܹܐ"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "word": "夜裡"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yèli",
          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "word": "夜里"
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        {
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "word": "夜間"
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        {
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "word": "夜间"
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          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "code": "cs",
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          "sense": "hours of darkness",
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "word": "yö"
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          "code": "fr",
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          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "núx",
          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "code": "ia",
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          "sense": "hours of darkness",
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          "alt": "やかん",
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          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "word": "夜間"
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          "roman": "yabun",
          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "word": "夜分"
        },
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          "code": "mrw",
          "lang": "Maranao",
          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "word": "kagagawi'i"
        },
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          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
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          "word": "natt"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "šab-hengâm",
          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "word": "شبهنگام"
        },
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "noc"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "noite"
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          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "nočʹ",
          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ночь"
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          "roman": "nočnóje vrémja",
          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "word": "ночно́е вре́мя"
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          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "tags": [
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "hours of darkness",
          "word": "gece"
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      "ipa": "[ˈnaɪʔtaɪm]"
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      "word": "night time"
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      "word": "night-time"
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      "word": "diurnal"
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          "word": "noční"
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 50, number 7, page 52",
          "text": "Smith Barney, for example, goes so far as to shift the hours during which taxi rides home are expensable as nighttime lengthens and shortens, says Moszkowski.",
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      "word": "nighttide"
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    {
      "word": "night time"
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    {
      "word": "night-time"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:nighttime",
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      "source": "Thesaurus:nighttime",
      "topics": [
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      "word": "scotoperiod"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:nighttime",
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      "code": "ar",
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      "roman": "laylu",
      "sense": "hours of darkness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "لَيْلُ"
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      "roman": "layle",
      "sense": "hours of darkness",
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "ܠܲܝܠܹܐ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "hours of darkness",
      "word": "夜裡"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yèli",
      "sense": "hours of darkness",
      "word": "夜里"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "word": "夜間"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "hours of darkness",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "hours of darkness",
      "word": "yö"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "hours of darkness",
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "hours of darkness",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "de",
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      "code": "grc",
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      "sense": "hours of darkness",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "hours of darkness",
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      "alt": "やかん",
      "code": "ja",
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      "sense": "hours of darkness",
      "word": "夜間"
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      "alt": "やぶん",
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      "lang": "Japanese",
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      "sense": "hours of darkness",
      "word": "夜分"
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    {
      "code": "mrw",
      "lang": "Maranao",
      "sense": "hours of darkness",
      "word": "kagagawi'i"
    },
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      "code": "no",
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    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "šab-hengâm",
      "sense": "hours of darkness",
      "word": "شبهنگام"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "hours of darkness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "noc"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "hours of darkness",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "noite"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "hours of darkness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ночь"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "hours of darkness",
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "hours of darkness",
      "word": "gece"
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}

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    {
      "glosses": [
        "Happening during the night."
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      "ipa": "/ˈnaɪtˌtaɪm/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈnaɪʔtaɪm]"
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      "sense": "pertaining to nighttime",
      "word": "night"
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      "sense": "happening during the night",
      "word": "night"
    },
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      "sense": "happening during the night",
      "word": "nocturnal"
    },
    {
      "word": "night time"
    },
    {
      "word": "night-time"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "pertaining to nighttime, appropriate to the night",
      "word": "noční"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "pertaining to nighttime, appropriate to the night",
      "word": "nokta"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "nukterinós",
      "sense": "pertaining to nighttime, appropriate to the night",
      "word": "νυκτερινός"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "pertaining to nighttime, appropriate to the night",
      "word": "éjszakai"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "pertaining to nighttime, appropriate to the night",
      "word": "éjjeli"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nočnój",
      "sense": "pertaining to nighttime, appropriate to the night",
      "word": "ночно́й"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "happening during the night",
      "word": "noční"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "nukterinós",
      "sense": "happening during the night",
      "word": "νυκτερινός"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "happening during the night",
      "word": "éjszakai"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "happening during the night",
      "word": "éjjeli"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nočnój",
      "sense": "happening during the night",
      "word": "ночно́й"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nighttime"
}

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