this night

1. 1.

   during the night of the present day

   “drop by tonight”

   Synonymstonightthis evening

Questions about this night

What does this night mean?

this night means "during the night of the present day".

What is another word for this night?

Close synonyms include tonight, this evening. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is this night a common word?

this night is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.