night sky
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1.1
- noun
- /naɪt skaɪ/
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cielo nocturno
- Who is not amazed when you look out in the night sky and see billions of stars?
- see the night sky
- look at the night sky
- clear night sky
Has humankind ever seen in the night sky a supernova?
- Has humankind ever seen in the night sky a supernova?
- Mysterious green beams split the night sky over Hawaii last week.
- Who is not amazed when you look out in the night sky and you see billions of stars?
- I must spend more time staring at the night sky.
- You are breathing air, observing sunsets, gazing into the night sky.
- Set down your technology and open your focus to the night sky.
- Like I could just go outside and just have a cup of sweet tea and look at the night sky and I'd be perfectly happy.
- And he was looking at the largest of the spirals that we see in the night sky, which today we know as the Andromeda Galaxy.
- And he was looking at the largest of these spirals that we see in the night sky, which today we know as the Andromeda Galaxy.
- And so when you look at the night sky and that
Examples
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You look up at the night sky and you see stars all around you.
Academic text (1994) -
And in fact, where did all the stars that you see in the night sky come from?
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This is what a good picture of the night sky looks like.
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And it looks at least a little bit like what our own night sky looks like.
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Look how beautiful the night sky is.
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Who is not amazed when you look out in the night sky and you see billions of stars?
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Constellations filled the night sky.
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The hundreds of flickering candles against the dark night sky create a beautiful image.
Fiction book (1990) -
When you look at the night sky, you're seeing the greatest equation in the universe.
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Has humankind ever seen in the night sky a supernova?
Synonyms
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Morphology
The meaning 'the sky as it appears during the night' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'night' (the period from sunset to sunrise) with 'sky' (the overhead atmosphere/space). This simple noun + noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows an obvious referential pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Night sky comes from the simple picture of the sky at night, where the darkness is dotted with stars and the moon like small lights in a dark roof. That's why it means 'the sky as it appears during the night'.