| ALLNIGHT | • all-night adj. Lasting throughout the whole night (or most of it). • all␣night adv. For the period of an entire night. • ALLNIGHT adj. lasting all night. |
| ANIGHT | • anight adv. (Obsolete) In the night-time, at night. • ANIGHT adv. (Shakespeare) by night. |
| BEKNIGHT | • beknight v. (Transitive, rare) To make a knight of. • BEKNIGHT v. to raise to knighthood. |
| BENIGHT | • benight v. (Chiefly in passive) To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached. • benight v. To darken; to shroud or obscure. • benight v. To plunge or be overwhelmed in moral or intellectual darkness. |
| BIRTHNIGHT | • birthnight n. The night of someone’s birth. • birthnight n. The anniversary of that night in subsequent years. • BIRTHNIGHT n. the night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years. |
| FORENIGHT | • forenight n. (Scotland) The evening, between twilight and bedtime. • FORENIGHT n. the night before. |
| FORTNIGHT | • fortnight n. (Chiefly UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, dated in North America) A period of 2 weeks. • FORTNIGHT n. a period of two weeks. |
| GOODNIGHT | • goodnight phr. Alternative form of good night. • goodnight n. Alternative spelling of good night. • goodnight v. Alternative form of good-night. |
| KNIGHT | • knight n. (Historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord. • knight n. (Historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire. • knight n. (By extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages. |
| MIDNIGHT | • midnight n. The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise. • midnight n. Twelve o’clock at night exactly. • midnight n. (Dice games) boxcars. |
| NIGHT | • night n. (Countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus… • night n. (Astronomy, countable) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight… • night n. (Law, countable) A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset… |
| OUTNIGHT | • outnight v. (Transitive) To surpass in telling tales of nights one has experienced. • OUTNIGHT v. (Shakespeare) to surpass in mentioning nights. |
| OVERNIGHT | • overnight adv. During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past. • overnight adv. (Figurative) In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time. • overnight adj. Occurring between dusk and dawn. |
| POSTMIDNIGHT | • postmidnight adj. After midnight, but prior to dawn. • post-midnight adj. Alternative form of postmidnight. • POSTMIDNIGHT adj. taking place after midnight. |
| SENNIGHT | • sennight n. (Archaic or obsolete). • sennight n. (Obsolete). • se'nnight n. Alternative form of sennight. |
| TONIGHT | • tonight adv. During the night following the current day. • tonight adv. (Obsolete) Last night. • tonight n. The nighttime of the current day or date; this night. |
| TWINIGHT | • twinight adj. (Of a baseball double-header) that begins in the late afternoon. • twi-night adj. (Baseball) Of a doubleheader: occurring between the hours of twilight and night. • twi-night n. (Baseball) A twi-night doubleheader. |
| UNKNIGHT | • unknight v. (Transitive) To deprive of knighthood. • UNKNIGHT v. to divest of knighthood. |
| WEEKNIGHT | • weeknight n. The evening of a weekday. • WEEKNIGHT n. the evening or night of a weekday. |
| YESTERNIGHT | • yesternight adv. (Archaic) Last night. • yesternight n. (Archaic) A preceding night. • YESTERNIGHT n. (dialect) last night. |