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Bookmark or Share- word choice - What's the difference between "stay the night," "sleep ..."Stay the night" is pretty generic. "Come visit me, if you can't find a hotel you can stay the night." "Stay for the night" is more rare, and in my experience might be used to indicate that it's only going to last one night. "His girlfriend kicked him out and he showed up on my doorstep, so I let him stay for the night."
- At Night or In the Night? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeOne of the earliest usages of "at night" is from Chaucer's works. However, there is one earlier usage listed in OED. The following are the definition of at night and earliest examples from OED: at night: at nightfall, in the evening or night; during the hours of darkness. Freq. designating a specified time.
- "Good night" or "good evening"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange21. Depends on context. "Good night" is generally reserved as a replacement for "goodbye". "Good evening" is a form of "hello". "Good evening" has historically been a way of saying goodbye as well, but in modern usage both "good evening" and "good day" used as a goodbye is almost always a form of dismissal rather than a mere parting ...
- single word requests - Precise names for parts of a day - English ...As for time of day, my dialect has two sets of word. One refers to the clock and one refers to the sky. The set of words that refers to the clock is: midnight (exactly 12:00 am), morning (from 12:01 am to 11:59 am), noon (exactly 12:00 pm), afternoon (from 12:01 pm to 6:00 pm), evening (from 6:00 pm to 11:59 pm).
- word usage - 1 o'clock in the morning OR 1 o'clock at night? - English ...If it is Monday and it becomes 2 a.m., since the light of the sun is no longer visible in the sky then that is the 'Night-of-the-previous-day", so it is 'Monday-Night'. However, one-minute AFTER 'Midnight' is the next "CALENDAR-'DATE", So if Monday is the 3rd of the month then one minute after Midnight is the 4th of the month, but it is STILL ...
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