Mar 13, 2015 · The same with in the night, if someone said that you would think of any time between the hours of 8pm and 6am, or thereabouts. However, at night generally means the …

Aug 22, 2020 · "In the night" refers to a specific night - most native English speakers are likely to assume it happened during the most recent night, unless you tell them otherwise. "At night" is …

"Good night" as noted by yourself means to have a good night's sleep, so "Good Evening" is used instead. "Evening" lasts from after Afternoon(4 p.m.) till after sunset, depending on where you …

Sep 10, 2024 · Finally, the Ngram chart below shows the popularity of the following expressions in the English corpus: a) day and night time, b) day and nighttime, c) day and night, and d) night …

Apr 26, 2020 · night - starting roughly 7pm and lasting till roughly 4am maybe 5am the next morning. Note that these are vaguely independent on the individual's meal and bedtime, but …

Jan 21, 2013 · "Good night" as a greeting was once a feature found almost exclusively in Ireland. In James Joyce's "The Dead", for example, it is used both as greeting: —O, Mr Conroy, said …

"The tiger hunts by night" sounds more dramatic than "The tiger hunts at night." Consider the title of the following film: They Drive by Night, which is a hyped-up way of presenting a movie …

Mar 27, 2020 · It has nothing to do with the dateline. The relevance of that is whether someone else's time is ahead or behind yours, and, it is not necessarily as business meeting. A younger …

Feb 18, 2011 · Even if you are meeting a person at 10 p.m. at night, the first time of the day, you can still greet him/her with "Good morning". This means it's a positive, well wishing statement, …

Dec 9, 2010 · The convention stems from the term itself. Midnight comes from 'mid-night.' In conversation, the 'night' of which 'midnight' is in the middle, is considered the night of the date …