dark night

noun

Etymology

From dark + night.

  1. inherited from *nókʷts✻ — “night”
  2. inherited from *nahts✻ — “night”
  3. inherited from *naht✻ — “night”
  4. inherited from niht
  5. inherited from nighte
  6. compounded as dark night — “dark + night”

Definitions

  1. Ellipsis of dark night of the soul.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dark, night.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA