- At Night or In the Night? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The same with in the night, if someone said that you would think of any time between the hours of 8pm and 6am, or thereabouts However, at night generally means the specific time between when night begins and when you go to sleep, let's say between 8pm and 10pm It's similar with other specific times of day, such as at midnight or at noon
- prepositions - At night or In the night - English Language Usage . . .
"In the night" refers to a specific night - most native English speakers are likely to assume it happened during the most recent night, unless you tell them otherwise "At night" is more generic, and could refer to something that's happened, or will happen, on several occasions (see Weather Vane's comment)
- meaning - When is afternoon? When is evening? When is night? Is there . . .
In Iran, we consider "evening" to run all the way from afternoon until sunset (4 pm – 8 pm), while "night" for us runs from right after sunset until the next sunrise; and we eat "dinner" at night, normally around 10 o’clock at night
- Is the expression the dead of night or the dead of the night?
The OED defines dead of night as follows, and gives these citations, some of which have a the and some of which do not: dead of night, of winter: the time of intensest stillness, darkness, cold, etc ; = ‘depth’ (of winter) 1548 Hall Chron 109 b, — In the dedde of the night he brake up his campe and fled 1583 Stanyhurst Æneis iv
- What is an appropriate greeting to use at night time?
"Good night" as a greeting was once a feature found almost exclusively in Ireland In James Joyce's "The Dead", for example, it is used both as greeting: —O, Mr Conroy, said Lily to Gabriel when she opened the door for him, Miss Kate and Miss Julia thought you were never coming Good night, Mrs Conroy And as a farewell:
- single word requests - Precise names for parts of a day - English . . .
"Good night" as noted by yourself means to have a good night's sleep, so "Good Evening" is used instead "Evening" lasts from after Afternoon(4 p m ) till after sunset, depending on where you live There is also "Dusk", which could be used for the time right after the sun goes beneath the horizon, and the sky is dim, but not dark
- Is Night an acceptable informal variant of Good Night?
The spoken use of "night" as an informal, familiar version of "good night" (wishing one a restful sleep) is common, but I'm not sure what the proper written equivalent is - if there is one I have always used 'Night with an apostrophe, usually capitalized: 'Night, Caroline!
- prepositions - On this night vs In this night - English Language . . .
"Night of wonder" and "all aglow" suggests a poetic or literary slant to the text, which means the usage suggested above is a lot more fluid and in could be used instead of on (but probably not the other way round)
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