Night vs. Nightfall

Nightnoun

(countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.

‘How do you sleep at night when you attack your kids like that!?’;

Nightfallnoun

The close of the day; the coming of night.

Nightnoun

(countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.

‘a night on the town’;

Nightfallnoun

The close of the day; the arrival of the night; the period at and just after dusk.

Nightnoun

(countable) A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a hotel or other accommodation.

‘We stayed at the Hilton for five nights.’;

Nightfallnoun

the time of day immediately following sunset;

‘he loved the twilight’; ‘they finished before the fall of night’;

Nightnoun

(uncountable) Nightfall.

‘from noon till night’;

Nightnoun

(uncountable) Darkness.

‘The cat disappeared into the night.’;

Nightnoun

(uncountable) A dark blue colour, midnight blue.

Nightnoun

A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.

Nightverb

To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.

Nightnoun

That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.

‘And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.’;

Nightnoun

Darkness; obscurity; concealment.

‘Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night.’;

Nightnoun

Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.

‘She closed her eyes in everlasting night.’; ‘Do not go gentle into that good nightRage, rage against the dying of the light.’;

Nightnoun

A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.

‘So help me God, as I have watched the night,Ay, night by night, in studying good for England.’;

Nightnoun

the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

Nightnoun

the time between sunset and midnight;

‘he watched television every night’;

Nightnoun

the period spent sleeping;

‘I had a restless night’;

Nightnoun

the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit;

‘three nights later he collapsed’;

Nightnoun

darkness;

‘it vanished into the night’;

Nightnoun

a shortening of nightfall;

‘they worked from morning to night’;

Nightnoun

a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom

Nightnoun

Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx

Night

Night (also described as night time or night-time or nighttime, unconventionally spelled as nite) is the period of ambient darkness from sunset to sunrise during each 24-hour day, when the Sun is below the horizon. The exact time when night begins and ends depends on the location and varies throughout the year, based on factors such as season and latitude.