night

exclamation

/naɪt/ informal

Definition

› a friendly way of saying goodbye when you leave someone in the evening or before going to bed or to sleep: Night, darling! Sleep well! → Compare good night

(Definition of night exclamation from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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niggle verb (WORRY)
nigh adverb, preposition
night after night idiom
night and day idiom
night blindness noun
night exclamation
night noun (DARK PERIOD)
night noun (EVENING)
night owl noun
night school noun
night shift noun

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night noun (DARK PERIOD)
night noun (EVENING)
all-night adjective
hen night noun
night owl noun
first night noun

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night after night idiom
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a night on the town idiom
day and night, at night and day idiom
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spend the night together idiom

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