Cleveland.com: Dear Annie: Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!
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Kris Jenner shares sparkling snaps of festive Kardashian family Christmas celebration: ‘To all a good night’
Dear Readers: Wishing you and all a very happy holiday season. Please enjoy the following poem. “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement Clarke Moore. “‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through ...
Night refers to the time after sunset. Accordingly, it can be both morning and night (this being pretty much the definition of the small hours). Midnight refers to exactly 0000/2400 hours, and the time just around it. 2301 is not midnight. "Good night" does not mean "have a good sleep".
Christmas lights: According to The Encyclopedia of Religion, Europeans decorated their homes “with lights and evergreens of all kinds” to celebrate the winter solstice and to combat evil spirits. Mistletoe, holly: “The Druids ascribed magical properties to the mistletoe in particular.
Christmas should be simple, not complex, very simple. Christmas should be stripped of all of its trappings so that all that is left is the simplicity of God becoming man. That is the only element in the Christmas seasonal celebration that has in it any lasting power to effect life.
The spoken use of "night" as an informal, familiar version of "good night" (wishing one a restful sleep) is common, but I'm not sure what the proper written equivalent is - if there is one.