Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or occurring during the night; nocturnal.
- adjective Happening or done every night.
from The Century Dictionary.
- By night.
- Every night.
- Happening or appearing in the night: as, nightly dews.
- Taking place or performed every night.
- Used in the night.
- Synonyms Nightly, Nocturnal. The former is the more familiar. Nightly tends to limitation to that which occurs every night (see definition 2), while nocturnal tends to cover both that which belongs to the night, as nocturnal insects, flowers, vision, and that which exists or occurs, however accidentally, in the night, as a nocturnal ramble.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the night, or to every night; happening or done by night, or every night
- adverb At night; every night.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Happening or appearing in the night;
night-time ;nocturnal . - adjective Performing, occurring, or taking place every
night . - adjective Used in the night.
- adverb Every night.
- noun computing A
build of asoftware program with the latest changes, released everynight .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective happening every night
- adverb at the end of each day
Etymologies
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Examples
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Each team reports in nightly by phone and files a written weekly report.
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It was not enough for my merely taking in nightly news reports from CNN and other mainstream American media; to conduct an investigation for inquiry of social fact, I needed to go to Serbia and investigate for myself.
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Comedy Central's Daily Show is on the scene 11 ET/PT; interstitial kids 'coverage on Nickelodeon; BET and TV One report live nightly from the Democratic convention.
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Next door or across the street, there may be kids near your children's age, who participate in nightly pick-up soccer games in the street.
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Next door or across the street, there may be kids near your children's age, who participate in nightly pick-up soccer games in the street.
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Their collective objective is to develop potent software to process the estimated 30 terabytes of astronomy imagery (think 12 billion five-megapixel photos) that will stream nightly from the newly built Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST, slated to go online in 2013.
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It's no big secret (nay, the national news delights in nightly reminding us) that crime in New Orleans is out of control; and it should come as no great shock that a significant number of those arrested are young people.
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Those calves of legs whose pearly shine make light in nightly gloom:
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While the Malecon's musicians entertain nightly, its fascinating sculptures provide non - stop enjoyment.
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While the Malecon's musicians entertain nightly, its fascinating sculptures provide non - stop enjoyment.
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