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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An account of what passes in the night: the converse of diary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A record of what passes in the night; a nightly journal; -- distinguished from diary.

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  • noun A record of what passes in the night; a nightly journal.

Etymologies

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Latin noctu by night. Compare diary.

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  • An account or journal of nocturnal incidents. (Compare diary).

    January 26, 2008