Thesaurus:nighttime
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: the period of ambient darkness between sunset and sunrise edit
NB: When the Sun is below the horizon.
Synonyms edit
- night
- nightertale (obsolete)
- nighttide
- nighttime
- scotoperiod, skotoperiod (biology)
Antonyms edit
Hyponyms edit
- early morning [⇒ thesaurus]
- evening [⇒ thesaurus]
- midnight [⇒ thesaurus]
- night
Meronyms edit
Holonyms edit
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Further reading edit
- “126. evening” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “421. darkness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “nighttime” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.