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# night

«night» in Mova's school dictionary: **The dark time between evening and morning when the sun…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (night, nights)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The dark time between evening and morning when the sun cannot be seen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/night/#m1)

2) The evening, as a time for events: "a night at the cinema". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/night/#m2)

3) "Good night" is said when going to sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/night/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, night happens because the Earth spins: the side facing away from the Sun is in darkness; nocturnal animals like owls are awake at night. In safety: wear bright or reflective clothes if out at night; children need about ten hours of sleep each night. Phrases: at night, good night, last night, tonight, all night, overnight, night and day.

### examples

- The stars shine at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/night/#x1)
- Owls hunt at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/night/#x2)
- Good night, sleep well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/night/#x3)
- Last night it rained. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/night/#x4)
- Our side of the Earth faces away from the Sun at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/night/#x5)
- Wear a bright jacket when you walk at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/night/#x6)
- We stayed at Grandma's for two nights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/night/#x7)
- Bats are night animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/night/#x8)
- That is why there are night-lights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/night/#x9)

### note

"Night" sounds like "knight" (a soldier in armour) — homophones. Say "at night", but "in the evening". Plural "nights". Nights are longer in winter and shorter in summer.

### In the corpora

- [Night shifts mean working through the night and sleeping in the day; nurses, drivers, bakers and warehouse workers often do them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/6/)
- [That night she opens her banking app and groans: "The app says we've spent eighty dollars on takeaways this month."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/7/)
- [Date night is when a couple goes out together, just the two of them, which keeps their friendship strong.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/5/)
- [A parent sleeping on the sofa for a few nights may mean a disagreement, or something simple like snoring or a bad back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/12/)
- [A newborn baby needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, because its stomach is tiny.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «night» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/night/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.