At night/ at the night

At night = at nighttime - nighttime in this sense is uncountable. At night; by train; through time; with confidence; etc., etc. are prepositional phrases in which the object of the

2025 Sep 01

Can we use "day and night time" instead of "day and night"?

There is no rule that I know of that forbids this usage, but I would strongly advise using the one-word spelling variant: " nighttime " Finally, the Ngram chart below shows the

2024 Dec 04

Another word for night that means the period from sunset

I''m looking for a synonym to night, that doesn''t include night in it (nighttime), that indicates the period from sunset to sunrise. Since evening is the period from sunset to bedtime

2025 Mar 06

nouns

Compound words such as nighttime used to be quite common in English; unfortunately, many people in modern times are forgetting about them, so their use is in decline.

2025 Dec 30

Evening and night in English

How exactly are the words ''evening'' and ''night'' used in English? Are there certain times when evening, and when night, are considered to begin? Do these periods overlap?

2025 Sep 30

At Night or In the Night?

Why do we refer to morning, afternoon and evening as ''in the morning'', ''in the afternoon'', ''in the evening'' but not ''in the night'' instead we say ''at night.''

2025 Jan 31

word usage

Morning ends and Evening begins after the sun reaches the zennith, its highest point in the sky, regardless of the time of day. Nighttime begins after the sun has set, and also

2026 Jan 12