day night

as inceaseless
as incontinuous

Synonyms for day night

adj never-ending

Antonyms for day night

Word Origin & History

Old English niht (West Saxon neaht, Anglian næht, neht) "night, darkness;" the vowel indicating that the modern word derives from oblique cases (genitive nihte, dative niht), from Proto-Germanic *nakht- (cf. Old Saxon and Old High German naht, Old Frisian and Dutch nacht, German Nacht, Old Norse natt, Gothic nahts).

The Germanic words are from PIE *nekwt- "night" (cf. Greek nuks "a night," Latin nox, Old Irish nochd, Sanskrit naktam "at night," Lithuanian naktis "night," Old Church Slavonic nosti, Russian noch', Welsh henoid "tonight"), according to Watkins, probably from a verbal root *neg- "to be dark, be night." For spelling with -gh- see fight.

Cf. German Weihnachten "Christmas." In early times, the day was held to begin at sunset, so Old English monanniht "Monday night" was the night before Monday, or what we would call Sunday night.

To work nights preserves the Old English genitive of time. Night shift is attested from 1710 in the sense of "garment worn by a woman at night" (see shift (n.1)); meaning "gang of workers employed after dark" is from 1839. Night soil "excrement" (1770) is so called because it was removed (from cesspools, etc.) after dark. Night train attested from 1838. Night life "habitual nocturnal carousing" attested from 1852.

Example Sentences for day night

It's a crime to send men out at this time of day—night, rather.

On Sat'day night, we mos'ly had fun, playin' an drinking whiskey an' beer—no time to fool 'roun' in de week time.

She called at my house on 7th day night, but being from home, did not see her till last evening.

Night followed day, and day night, as if there was no interval between; yet there was a heaviness upon me that bowed me down.

Sat'day night we would have parties and dance and play ring plays.

Dat wuz de place whar us collected mos' ev'ry Sa'day night fer our lil' mite o' fun frum de white folks hearin'.

Soon as I 'cumulates some payday me an' Lily meets you heah nex' Sat'day night.

Night follows day, and day night, with the startling suddenness of a match struck or a lamp extinguished in a cavern.

I mind the time you brought home your wages reg'lar, every Sat'day night, and I was willin' enough then to speak kind to you.

He said the night—for the blind call their day night—was now far gone, and it behoved everyone to go back to sleep.