nights
Periods of darkness between sunset and sunrise.
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,818 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 9,959 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- Periods of darkness between sunset and sunrise.
nights in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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For three whole days and nights, too, it had rained--"rained pitchforks."
Half-Past Seven Stories · Robert Gordon Anderson · Chapter 1
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There are only sixty-two days to the holidays--1688 hours including nights!
Punch — Volume 101, November 7, 1891 · Various · Chapter 1
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But Samuel did not appear again, perhaps because the nights were so dark.
The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story · George Moore · Chapter 1
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To produce the poem as written by Goethe, would require at least three nights in performance.
Representative Plays by American Dramatists — Love in '76 · Oliver Bell Bunce · Chapter 1
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The winter nights, following days spent largely indoors with little company and less exercise, were quite different.
The Soul of a Child · Edwin Björkman · Chapter 1