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Plural of night

regular plural

The plural of night is nights.

Forms of night

Singularnight /ˈnaɪ̯t/
Pluralnights /naɪts/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Nights in a sentence

  • For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
  • I stayed my friend's house for three nights.
  • I work nights, my brother only afternoons, and my son days.From the entry nights
  • Alcohol became a crutch to help him through the long nights; eventually it killed him.From the entry crutch
  • I've had enough of working nights, so I'm going to jack in my job.From the entry jack in

Meaning of night

  1. noun The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
  2. noun The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
  3. noun A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.

Full definition of night

Questions about the plural of night

What is the plural of night?
The plural of night is nights.
Is night countable?
Night is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: night (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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