nighttime

[ nahyt-tahym ]

noun

1. the time times between evening and morning.

adjective

1. occurring, done, presented, etc., during the night, especially the hours before midnight.

Word History and Origins

Origin of nighttime¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; night, time

Example Sentences

Take your daytime meds, and with the red marker, draw a smiley face, but place them in another cabinet, separate from the nighttime meds.

From Washington Post

He worked seven days a week, including holidays, and took a one-upmanship approach with legal opponents by scheduling nighttime meetings on Christmas Eve or the Fourth of July.

From Washington Post

You can also clip it to your rear-facing camera, for capturing delicious meals or nighttime pics, or around your laptop’s built-in camera.

From Popular-Science

However, a nighttime curfew will still apply, restaurants will have to remain shut until January 20, and there is as yet no planned reopening date for bars.

From Fortune

Most counties in California began a nighttime curfew and Los Angeles County, the state’s largest with around 10 million people, may face stricter lockdowns this week with cases and hospitalizations soaring.

From Washington Post

A nighttime curfew that was imposed a few weeks ago seems barely enforced now—no doubt to the relief of the women at the Ramada.

From The Daily Beast

The city of Miran Shah, for example, was subjected to a nighttime curfew for years.

From The Daily Beast

A militarized strike force onstage, attired in all black with faces smeared in black as though prepped for a nighttime raid.

From The Daily Beast

“Nighttime was the worst,” Bennett wrote in his autobiography.

From The Daily Beast

It was nighttime in Brooklyn in the middle of summer and the air conditioning in the bank was turned off.

From The Daily Beast

I scouted round a little, and soon found that, at nighttime, there were but one man and a woman about the place.

From Project Gutenberg

And the forest lay very still and solemn and dark in the silence of the nighttime.

From Project Gutenberg

She followed him wherever he went, to examine this and consider that in the nighttime.

From Project Gutenberg

He had earned his quittance, and in the nighttime, upon his hands and knees, he crept from the sleepers in the court.

From Project Gutenberg

Evading the guards, in the nighttime while all were asleep, he blew the Pertonwaithe palace into atoms.

From Project Gutenberg