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say it: nahyt
night is a noun meaning "the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside". It is pronounced /ˈnaɪt/ — nahyt. It carries 8 recorded senses.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit
“three nights later he collapsed”
Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for night come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.