Tonight vs. Night

Tonight vs. Night — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Tonight and Night

Tonightadverb

During the night following the current day.

I want to party tonight!I had a wonderful time with you tonight.

Nightnoun

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

How do you sleep at night when you attack your kids like that!?

Tonightadverb

(obsolete) Last night.

Nightnoun

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

a night on the town

Tonightnoun

The nighttime of the current day or date; this night.

Tonight is the night.I have high hopes for tonight.

Nightnoun

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

We stayed at the Hilton for five nights.
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Tonightnoun

the present or immediately coming night

Nightnoun

(uncountable) Nightfall.

from noon till night

Tonightadverb

during the night of the present day;

drop by tonight

Nightnoun

(uncountable) Darkness.

The cat disappeared into the night.

Nightnoun

(uncountable) A dark blue colour, midnight blue.

Nightnoun

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

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Nightverb

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

Nightnoun

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

Nightnoun

the time between sunset and midnight;

he watched television every night

Nightnoun

the period spent sleeping;

I had a restless night

Nightnoun

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

three nights later he collapsed

Nightnoun

darkness;

it vanished into the night

Nightnoun

a shortening of nightfall;

they worked from morning to night

Nightnoun

a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom

Nightnoun

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