late night vs deep night

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Hi, everyone:

Could you tell me the difference between "late night" and "deep night"?

I think "deep night" comes before "late night", and "early morning" comes after "late night", that is:

1. early night?
2.
3. deep night
4. late night
5. early morning
6.
7. late morning.

Best wishes.
 
    • I've never heard "deep night". Perhaps "Deep in the night", but that's not so common.

    1. Sunset
    2. Evening
    3. Night
    4. Dawn/Sunrise
    5. Morning

    You can say late at night, meaning sometime in the night perhaps when most people are sleeping or are about to go to sleep.

    You can say, I'll meet you early tomorrow morning or I'll meet you in the early morning, or we should leave in the early morning. This would be not too long after the sun rises.
     
    Hi, Giannid:

    Thanks. In my opinion, "at late night" means "the last several hours before dawn and past midnight". But perhaps I'm wrong.
     
    Hi; you can say "late night" but not "at late night". Late night is probably after 9.00 p.m.

    Early evening 5.00 p.m. to 9.00p.m.
    Late evening 9.00 p.m. to midnight

    Night time = all the hours of darkness, say 6.00 p.m. to 6.00 a.m.

    Rod
     
    "Deep night" is just a more poetic version of "late night". It would never be used outside of poetry. You may sometimes also see "deep dawn" for early morning, as in

    "The myrrh-bearing women in the deep dawn stood before the tomb of the Giver of life" [Paschal stichera of the Orthodox Church] -

    - but no one would say "deep dawn" or "deep night" outside of that context.
     
    hly2004 said:
    Hi, everyone:

    Could you tell me the difference between "late night" and "deep night"?

    I think "deep night" comes before "late night", and "early morning" comes after "late night", that is:

    1. early night?
    2.
    3. deep night
    4. late night
    5. early morning
    6.
    7. late morning.

    Best wishes.
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    I think of deep night as a combination of late night and dark night.
     
    Welcome to the forum, New York.:)

    NewYork50 said:
    I think of deep night as a combination of late night and dark night.
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    I'd say "in the middle of a very dark night", say between 3 and 5 after midnight. I'm rarely up that late. "Late" is relative, anyway.

    I didn't think I'd ever heard the phrase, but it exists—largely in poetry.
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    Deep night, dark night, the silence of the night,
    The time of night when Troy was set on fire;

    King Henry VI , part 2,     William Shakespeare.

    "Late night" - I'm not sure about this one, but "late at night" to me would mean around 1-2 in the morning, when I might be coming home from revels ;).
     
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