"white night" meaning in English

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Noun

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), 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': 88 12
  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): fehér éjszaka (Hungarian), biała noc [feminine] (Polish), бе́лая ночь (bélaja nočʹ) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-white_night-en-noun-tDL-SpEQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 76 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 36 64 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 22 78 Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences Disambiguation of '(astronomy) a night with only civil twilight, where the sun does not go further than 6° below the horizon': 6 94

Inflected forms

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