NIGHT
What does "NIGHT" mean?
The period of darkness between sunset and sunrise when one part of Earth faces away from the sun.
Meanings
- The dark hours from dusk to dawn. The desert turns bitterly cold the moment night falls.
- An evening set aside for a particular activity or event. Friday is trivia night at the pub down the road.
- A state of darkness, ignorance, or adversity. He spoke of the long night the country had finally come through. figurative
Did you know?
- 'Night' is one of the most conserved words in the Indo-European family: Latin 'nox', Greek 'nyx', German 'Nacht', and Sanskrit 'nakti' all trace back to the same ancient root 'nokt-'.
"Do not go gentle into that good night."— Dylan Thomas
Word origin
From Old English 'niht', from Proto-Germanic 'nahts', from Proto-Indo-European 'nokt-', the same root behind Latin 'nox', Greek 'nyx', and Sanskrit 'nakti'.
Remember it
NIGHT, LIGHT, SIGHT, FIGHT - the '-ight' family all share the silent 'gh' that once was a real throat-sound.
A little poem
The street lamps come on-
one by one the windows learn
they were rooms all along.
haiku
Wordplay
- I told the sun I was tired of working overtime. It said, 'Don't worry, I clock out every night.'
What it teaches
Darkness is not the absence of the day but its other half - rest is built into the turning, not stolen from it.
Quick facts
What does NIGHT mean?
The period of darkness between sunset and sunrise when one part of Earth faces away from the sun.
Is NIGHT a valid word?
Yes — NIGHT is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is NIGHT?
NIGHT has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does NIGHT come from?
From Old English 'niht', from Proto-Germanic 'nahts', from Proto-Indo-European 'nokt-', the same root behind Latin 'nox', Greek 'nyx', and Sanskrit 'nakti'.
What can NIGHT teach us?
Darkness is not the absence of the day but its other half - rest is built into the turning, not stolen from it.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.