"white night" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: white nights [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} white night (plural white nights)
  1. A sleepless night. Translations (a sleepless night): witte nacht [feminine] (Dutch), blanka nokto (Esperanto), valkea yö (Finnish), nuit blanche [feminine] (French), თეთრად გათენებული ღამე (tetrad gatenebuli ɣame) (Georgian), უძილო ღამე (uʒilo ɣame) (Georgian), weiße Nacht [feminine] (German), biała noc [feminine] (Polish), noite em claro [feminine] (Portuguese), noite em branco [feminine] (Portuguese), noapte albă [feminine] (Romanian), noche en blanco [feminine] (Spanish), noche toledana [colloquial, feminine] (Spanish), uykusuz gece (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-white_night-en-noun-MSvA7Ccj Disambiguation of 'a sleepless night': 96 4
  2. (astronomy) A night with only civil twilight, where the sun does not go further than 6° below the horizon. Categories (topical): Astronomy Translations ((astronomy) a night with only civil twilight, where the sun does not go further than 6° below the horizon): 白夜 (baak⁶ je⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 白夜 (báiyè) (Chinese Mandarin), თეთრი ღამე (tetri ɣame) (Georgian), fehér éjszaka (Hungarian), 白夜 (alt: びゃくや, byakuya, はくや, hakuya) (Japanese), 백야 (baegya) (alt: 白夜) (Korean), biała noc [feminine] (Polish), бе́лая ночь (bélaja nočʹ) [feminine] (Russian)
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Inflected forms

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          "sense": "(astronomy) a night with only civil twilight, where the sun does not go further than 6° below the horizon",
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