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Bedtime vs Forenight - What's the difference?

bedtime | forenight |

As nouns the difference between bedtime and forenight

is that bedtime is the time or hour at which one typically retires to bed in order to sleep while forenight is the evening, between twilight and bedtime.

bedtime

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The time or hour at which one typically retires to bed in order to sleep.
  • * 2004 , Vartan Gregorian, The Road to Home: My Life and Times (page 55)
  • I read every evening, sometimes late into the night, with the help of kerosene lamps, often secretly, past my bedtime .
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains , passage=Irregular bedtimes' may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set ' bedtime , researchers found.}}

    Derived terms

    * bedtime story

    forenight

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) The evening, between twilight and bedtime.
  • (Webster 1913)