Synonyms of the word

night

• n. (countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when…
• n. (countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
• n. (countable) A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a hotel or other accommodation.
• n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
• n. (uncountable) Darkness.
• n. (uncountable) A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
• n. (sports, colloquial) A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.
• interj. Short for good night.
• v. To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.

crepuscle

• n. Alternative form of crepuscule.

crepuscule

• n. (now rare) Twilight.

dark

• adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
• adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
• adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
• adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
• adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
• adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
• adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction…
• n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
• n. (uncountable) Ignorance.
• n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
• n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

darkness

• n. (uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light.
• n. (uncountable) Gloom.
• n. (countable) The product of being dark.
• n. (uncountable) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
• n. (uncountable) Evilness, lack of understanding or compassion, reference to death or suffering.

dusk

• n. A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night,…
• n. A darkish colour.
• v. (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
• v. (transitive) To make dusk.
• adj. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

evenfall

• n. (poetic) dusk, twilight.

fall

• n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
• n. A loss of greatness or status.
• n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
• n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
• n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
• n. See falls.
• n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
• v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
• v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
• v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
• v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
• v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
• v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
• v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

gloam

• n. (obsolete) gloaming, twilight.
• v. To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.
• v. To be sullen or morose.

gloaming

• n. (poetry, Scotland, Britain, Northern England) twilight, as at early morning or (especially) early evening;…
• n. (obsolete) sullenness; melancholy.

nightfall

• n. The close of the day; the coming of night.

nighttime

• n. The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night.
• adj. Pertaining to nighttime; appropriate to the night.
• adj. Happening during the night.

period

• adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
• adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
• interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
• n. A length of time.
• n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
• n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
• n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
• n. Female menstruation.
• n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
• n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
• n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
• n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
• n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
• n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
• n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
• n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
• n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
• n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
• n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

twilight

• n. The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned…
• n. The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
• n. (astronomy) The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
• n. Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.
• adj. Pertaining to or resembling twilight.