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darkness; "it vanished into the night" the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit; "three nights later he collapsed" the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside the time between sunset and midnight; "he watched television every night" the period spent sleeping; "I had a restless night" a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom a shortening of nightfall; "they worked from morning to night" Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx |
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