Definition of "nightside" []

• The side of a planet that faces away from the sun around which it orbits (noun)

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• "Though the somewhat misnamed 'nightside' of the satellite was still permanently frozen, an area as large as Africa now had a temperate climate, liquid water, and a few scattered islands."
• "A man like Titus Oates occurs like a slip of the tongue, disclosing the unconscious forces, the nightside of an age ..."
• "And my gift to him is that part of him lives always here, the nightside of the city that shaped him - and that he is always, always loved."