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Prepositional phrase

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at night

1. During the night.
   Synonyms: after dark, nocturnally
   Antonym: diurnally
   Owls usually hunt at night.
   • 1955 February, “Notes and News: Arresting an Earth Slip at Uxbridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 138:
     Movement was then observed in a part of the wall which had been quiescent, and another group of struts was therefore constructed, again during traffic hours as well as at night.
   • 1956 October, “Recent Changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 662:
     As these [diesel] trains have to be shedded under cover at night, four additional outdoor standage roads are being provided for stabling of electric rolling stock after inspection in the shed.

• be on nights
• night job
• nightly
• night owl
• night shift

during the night

• Arabic: فِي اَللَّيْلَ (fī l-layla)

• Australian Kriol: deidam

• Bashkir: төнөн (tönön), төндә (töndə)

• Catalan: de nit, a la nit

• Chickasaw: oklhilika̠

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 夜間 / 夜间 (zh) (yèjiān), 夜裡 / 夜里 (zh) (yèli)

• Comorian:
  Maore Comorian: mauku
  Ngazidja Comorian: emasihu

• Czech: v noci

• Dutch: 's nachts (nl), in de nacht

• Esperanto: nokte

• Estonian: öösel (et)

• Finnish: yöllä (fi), öisin (fi)

• French: de nuit (fr), la nuit (fr), nuitamment (fr)

• Galician: á noite, de noite

• German: in der Nacht, nachts (de), während der Nacht

• Greek:
  Ancient Greek: νύκτωρ (núktōr)

• Hebrew: בַּלַּיְלָה (baláyla, balláylɔ)

• Hindi: रात को (rāt ko)

• Hungarian: éjszaka (hu), éjjel (hu), éjszakánként (hu), éjjelenként (hu), éjjelente

• Irish: san oíche, istoíche

• Italian: di notte, nottetempo (it), la notte, nottempo

• Japanese: 夜に (ja) (よるに, yoru-ni), 夜間に (ja) (やかんに, yakan-ni)

• Latin: noctū (la)

• Old English: on niht, nihtes

• Polish: nocą (pl)

• Portuguese: à noite, de noite (pt)

• Punic: 𐤁𐤋𐤋 (bll)

• Romanian: noaptea (ro)

• Romansh: da notg

• Russian: но́чью (ru) (nóčʹju)

• Sami:
  Northern Sami: ihkku

• Sanskrit: अक्तु (sa) (aktu)

• Spanish: por la noche, de noche

• Swahili: usiku (sw)

• Swedish: på natten, nattetid (sv)

• Tagalog: sa gabi, tuwing gabi

• Ternate: sifutu

• Tocharian B: kästwer

• Urdu: رات کو (rāt ko)

• Yiddish: אויפֿדערנאַכט (oyfdernakht)

• hatting, tathing

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