Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun nighttime
1 sense of nighttime
Sense 1
night, nighttime, dark -- (the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside)
=> time period, period of time, period -- (an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period")