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Night. Night sky over a bog in Estonia, with light pollution visible on the horizon. Night or nighttime is the period of darkness when the Sun is below the horizon. The opposite of nighttime is daytime. Sunlight illuminates one side of the Earth, leaving the other in darkness. Earth's rotation causes the appearance of sunrise and sunset.
night: [noun] the time from dusk to dawn when no sunlight is visible.
Night is narrated by Eliezer, a Jewish teenager who, when the memoir begins, lives in his hometown of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. Eliezer studies the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament) and the Kabbalah (a doctrine of Jewish mysticism). His instruction is cut short, however, when his teacher, Moishe the Beadle, is deported.
Night definition: the period of darkness between sunset and sunrise.. See examples of NIGHT used in a sentence.
Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in ...
3. a : happening at night. He is taking a night flight. a night game/class [=a game/class in the evening] b : active, working, or operating at night. a night manager at the supermarket. This is the last night bus/train. I am a night person. [=a person who likes the night; a person who has the most energy at night]
