Night vs. Dusk

Nightnoun

(countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.

Nightnoun

(countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.

Nightnoun

(countable) A night (and part of the days before and after it) spent in a hotel or other accommodation.

Nightnoun

(uncountable) Nightfall.

Nightnoun

(uncountable) Darkness.

Nightnoun

(uncountable) A dark blue colour, midnight blue.

Nightnoun

A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.

Nightverb

To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.

Nightnoun

That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.

Nightnoun

Darkness; obscurity; concealment.

Nightnoun

Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.

Nightnoun

A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.

Nightnoun

the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

Nightnoun

the time between sunset and midnight;

Nightnoun

the period spent sleeping;

Nightnoun

the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit;

Nightnoun

darkness;

Nightnoun

a shortening of nightfall;

Nightnoun

a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom

Nightnoun

Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx

Night

Night (also described as night time or night-time or nighttime, unconventionally spelled as nite) is the period of ambient darkness from sunset to sunrise during each 24-hour day, when the Sun is below the horizon. The exact time when night begins and ends depends on the location and varies throughout the year, based on factors such as season and latitude.

Dusknoun

A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight.

Dusknoun

A darkish colour.

Duskverb

(intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.

Duskverb

(transitive) To make dusk.

Duskadjective

Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

Duskadjective

Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

Dusknoun

Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.

Dusknoun

A darkish color.

Duskverb

To make dusk.

Duskverb

To grow dusk.

Dusknoun

the time of day immediately following sunset;

Dusk

Dusk occurs at the darkest stage of twilight, or at the very end of astronomical twilight after sunset and just before night. At predusk, during early to intermediate stages of twilight, enough light in the sky under clear conditions may occur to read outdoors without artificial illumination; however, at the end of civil twilight (when Earth rotates to a point at which the center of the Sun's disk is 6° below the local horizon), such lighting is required to read outside.