nighttime
[nahyt-tahym]
- the time between evening and morning.
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- occurring, done, presented, etc., during the night, especially the hours before midnight.
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Compare daytime.
Origin of nighttime
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Examples from the Web for nighttime
Contemporary Examples
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.
The city of Miran Shah, for example, was subjected to a nighttime curfew for years.
Obama’s Deadly Informants: The Drone Spotters of PakistanUmar Farooq, Syed Fakhar Kakakhel
November 12, 2014
A militarized strike force onstage, attired in all black with faces smeared in black as though prepped for a nighttime raid.
“Nighttime was the worst,” Bennett wrote in his autobiography.
Tony Bennett’s Nazi Hunting Past Is Just One Reason He’s the Greatest Living AmericanAsawin Suebsaeng
September 25, 2014
It was nighttime in Brooklyn in the middle of summer and the air conditioning in the bank was turned off.
Historical Examples
Nighttime in the tropics descends with a surprising rapidity.
Howard Pyle's Book of PiratesHoward Pyle
He accused him of being a nuisance to men by crowing in the nighttime and not permitting them to sleep.
Aesop's FablesAesop
Neither by daytime nor by nighttime was he thereafter to know darkness.
Sundry AccountsIrvin S. Cobb
The direct proof of it was, by this nighttime thing, revealed and made yet plainer.
Sundry AccountsIrvin S. Cobb
Now he'd go up to the mine entrance, and if it was nighttime he'd leave.
ShamanRobert Shea
Word Origin and History for nighttime
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper