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Synonyms for nighttime

Grammar : Noun

Spell : nahyt-tahym

Phonetic Transcription : ˈnaɪtˌtaɪm

Définition of nighttime

Origin : also night-time, c.1400, from night + time (n.).

noun darkness

Example sentences :

Nighttime in the tropics descends with a surprising rapidity.
Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle

He accused him of being a nuisance to men by crowing in the nighttime and not permitting them to sleep.
Extract from : « Aesop's Fables » by Aesop

The direct proof of it was, by this nighttime thing, revealed and made yet plainer.
Extract from : « Sundry Accounts » by Irvin S. Cobb

Neither by daytime nor by nighttime was he thereafter to know darkness.
Extract from : « Sundry Accounts » by Irvin S. Cobb

Now he'd go up to the mine entrance, and if it was nighttime he'd leave.
Extract from : « Shaman » by Robert Shea

One of the pair sent down from Levant for breaking and entering in the nighttime.
Extract from : « When Egypt Went Broke » by Holman Day

They were in a canoe, and had evidently passed the village in the nighttime, unseen.
Extract from : « The Pioneer Boys of the Columbia » by Harrison Adams

She followed him wherever he went, to examine this and consider that in the nighttime.
Extract from : « The Forgotten Planet » by Murray Leinster

I can quite believe that—for one cannot get a good look in the nighttime.
Extract from : « Balsamo, The Magician » by Alexander Dumas

Never in the history of white men had these rapids been ridden at nighttime.
Extract from : « Northern Lights, Complete » by Gilbert Parker

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