nighttime

[ nahyt-tahym ]

/ ˈnaɪtˌtaɪm /

the time between evening and morning.

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

Nearby words

Compare daytime.

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

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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.
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The city of Miran Shah, for example, was subjected to a nighttime curfew for years.
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“Nighttime was the worst,” Bennett wrote in his autobiography.
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It was nighttime in Brooklyn in the middle of summer and the air conditioning in the bank was turned off.
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In short, not getting enough sleep is slowly killing us—and that nighttime preamble is certainly not helping.
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And the forest lay very still and solemn and dark in the silence of the nighttime.
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table|Howard Pyle
The map was painted in green, packets flying unimpeded throughout the empty nighttime Market.
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Antarctica wanted temperature lowered from a nighttime norm of 62° Fahrenheit to 57.6°.
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In fair weather as in foul, in blistering midsummer and blizzardy midwinter, daytime and nighttime, she followed him.
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Yet another pleasure which he took was to lean out of the garret window at nighttime.
The Fat and the Thin|Emile Zola