Night Quotes

Night refers to the period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark. It commonly describes an evening or night spent at a particular activity, a night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a place away from home, e.g. a hotel, and nightfall, which gives the term a broader and more practical sense than a single short definition would suggest. Depending on context, it can also point to darkness (due to it being nighttime), a dark blue colour, midnight blue, and a night's worth of competitions, generally one game, so the category can cover literal uses, related ideas, and more figurative extensions of the same core meaning. Taken together, these meanings present Night as a flexible theme rather than a narrowly technical label, covering the central idea people usually mean when they use the word while still leaving room for closely related senses that appear in real language. Additional shades of meaning include to spend a night (in a place), to overnight and ellipsis of good night, which reinforce how the category can stretch across adjacent but still recognizable uses of the same term.

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