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Definition of white night in English: white nightnoun 1A sleepless night. Example sentencesExamples - Four thousand people may turn up to participate in the contest (as onlookers) and a white night is spent by restaurateurs to prepare for the multitude.
2A night when it is never properly dark, as in high latitudes in summer. Example sentencesExamples - In summer the cities provide white nights with daylight lasting almost to midnight and dawn following dusk with great speed.
- The best time to visit this city is June - a period of the so-called white nights when the sun never sets down.
- The prince searches for her through the white night of St. Petersburg, his mind full of confusion, premonitions and anxiety.
- Before her career as a spy really blazed across Russia's white nights and she became the KGB's favorite British agent, it was almost stillborn.
- From white nights to white-hot days, from Baroque palaces on the Neva to Art Deco by the beach, St. Petersburg native Mikhail Ilyin has leapt through a six-year career to land as a principal dancer at Miami City Ballet.
Definition of white night in US English: white nightnoun 1A sleepless night. Example sentencesExamples - Four thousand people may turn up to participate in the contest (as onlookers) and a white night is spent by restaurateurs to prepare for the multitude.
2A night when it is never properly dark, as in high latitudes in summer. Example sentencesExamples - From white nights to white-hot days, from Baroque palaces on the Neva to Art Deco by the beach, St. Petersburg native Mikhail Ilyin has leapt through a six-year career to land as a principal dancer at Miami City Ballet.
- The prince searches for her through the white night of St. Petersburg, his mind full of confusion, premonitions and anxiety.
- In summer the cities provide white nights with daylight lasting almost to midnight and dawn following dusk with great speed.
- The best time to visit this city is June - a period of the so-called white nights when the sun never sets down.
- Before her career as a spy really blazed across Russia's white nights and she became the KGB's favorite British agent, it was almost stillborn.
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