Nightward

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Toward night..

Definitions by Sense

1. Toward night.
2. Toward the nightside of a planet.
3. Into the night.
4. On or toward the nightside of a planet.
5. The direction of oncoming night.

Example Sentences

Yet, that you may see I am something suspicious of myself, and do take note of a certain belatedness in me, I am the bolder to sen you some of my nightward thoughts sometime since.

Perhaps, as if clouds that had parted, sending a sunbeam across from the west upon the dark sorrow of the morning, had shut again, inexorably, leaving him still to tread the nightward path under the old, leaden sky.

What of the day could turn their nightward eyes?

Though twilight balms the west, my fears see something brutal in that nightward star.

The nightward shift of daily times for dinner (i.e., the main, “midday” meal), supper, and sleep by social class is underscored by the view from Napoleon's Paris:

nightward flow

nightward ion flow

Nightward ion flow was greatly reduced at solar minimum .

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