nighttime

[ nahyt-tahym ]

noun

1. the time times between evening and morning.

adjective

1. occurring, done, presented, etc., during the night, especially the hours before midnight.

Word History and Origins

Origin of nighttime¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; night, time

Example Sentences

A nighttime curfew that was imposed a few weeks ago seems barely enforced now—no doubt to the relief of the women at the Ramada.

From The Daily Beast

The city of Miran Shah, for example, was subjected to a nighttime curfew for years.

From The Daily Beast

A militarized strike force onstage, attired in all black with faces smeared in black as though prepped for a nighttime raid.

From The Daily Beast

“Nighttime was the worst,” Bennett wrote in his autobiography.

From The Daily Beast

It was nighttime in Brooklyn in the middle of summer and the air conditioning in the bank was turned off.

From The Daily Beast

I scouted round a little, and soon found that, at nighttime, there were but one man and a woman about the place.

From Project Gutenberg

And the forest lay very still and solemn and dark in the silence of the nighttime.

From Project Gutenberg

She followed him wherever he went, to examine this and consider that in the nighttime.

From Project Gutenberg

He had earned his quittance, and in the nighttime, upon his hands and knees, he crept from the sleepers in the court.

From Project Gutenberg

Evading the guards, in the nighttime while all were asleep, he blew the Pertonwaithe palace into atoms.

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