Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several nightjars found throughout the Americas, having grayish-brown plumage that mimics leaves on the forest floor, especially Chordeiles minor.
- noun Informal A night owl.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who prowls about at night; specifically, a night cabman or his cab or horse.
- noun A caprimulgine bird of the genus Chordeiles.
- noun The night-jar or goatsucker, Caprimulgus curopæus.
- noun One of certain petrels of the genus Œstrelata: as, the white night-hawk or mutton-bird, Œ. lessoni.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person who likes to be active late at night; a
night owl . - noun (Zoöl.) Any of several mainly nocturnal North American goatsuckers, especially
Chordeiles minor , or the related European goatsuckerCaprimulgus europaeus , also called the nightjar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A New World
nightjar . - noun A person whose
preference orcustom is to remainawake andactive during the night and the early morning hours.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker
- noun a person who likes to be active late at night
Etymologies
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Examples
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So it should be no surprise that I actually filled out this music survey thingy I found in nighthawk's LJ.
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There is a glorious passage by Henry Thoreau of his encounter with a nightjar relative called a nighthawk.
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There is a glorious passage by Henry Thoreau of his encounter with a nightjar relative called a nighthawk.
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The high-pitched sound is from a soaring insect-eater called a nighthawk.
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The high-pitched sound is from a soaring insect-eater called a nighthawk.
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Think of Walky as a 'nighthawk'! "and Marty, who was a short, freckled-faced boy several years his cousin's junior, went off into a spasm of laughter.
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The black nodules of his sprinkler system clicked in the muggy air, and in one of the peeling river birches, a single nighthawk warbled.
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She got her start in journalism as nighthawk at the Boston Globe.
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Wybrcathl floated into the air, a buoyant song, a nighthawk gliding on thermals.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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I was worried about all the stuff I had to begin to do to find us a new nighthawk.
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john commented on the word nighthawk
“The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is a stealth ground attack aircraft formerly operated by the United States Air Force. The F-117A's first flight was in 1981, and it achieved Initial Operational Capability status in October 1983.�? More on Wikipedia.
December 30, 2008
dailyword commented on the word nighthawk
This was Xander's codename when he and Willow and Cordelia were killing vampire's in Buffy's place after she left Sunnydale after she killed Angel.
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