Night (band)
WordNet
noun
(1) Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx
(2) Darkness
"It vanished into the night"
(3) The dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit
"Three nights later he collapsed"
(4) The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
(5) The time between sunset and midnight
"He watched television every night"
(6) The period spent sleeping
"I had a restless night"
(7) A period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
(8) A shortening of nightfall
"They worked from morning to night"
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Proper noun
Quotations
- (pagan goddess) "In this prayer, Sigdrifa calls upon powers of Nature - Day, Night, Earth - and the gods and goddesses as a group." Our Troth, Ring of Troth and other True Folk, Ring of Troth, ISBN 0-962357-8-1, 1993, page 383.
- (pagan goddess) "Hail to Night and her daughters. Teutonic Religion, Kveldulf Gundarsson, Llewellyn Publications, 1993, ISBN 0-87542-260-8, page 316.
- (pagan goddess) "In another story, the Allfather, the original sky god from early Wyrd culture, took Night and her son Day, and gave to each of them a horse and chariot and put them in the sky, so that they should ride around the world every twenty-four hours. The Wisdom of the Wyrd, Brian Bates, Rider, 1996, ISBN 0-7126-7277-X, page 48.