Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By night; nightly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By night; nightly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb During the
night - adverb Every night.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb at night
Etymologies
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Examples
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I was twice nocturnally in ancient public transportation with interior decoration that can only have drawn its inspiration from the interior of a coffin: dark, quilted material, gleaming metal trim, dim lights and eerie, and all of it inexpressibly shabby, like faded luxury all jerking around in the habitual patterns of traffic here as if undergoing an eternally incipient rigor mortis.
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Your sniglet sounds a bit more nocturnally athletic than my 9-month-old, though, and for that you have my deepest sympathies.
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It was until now believed that nocturnally migrating songbirds, while venturing into the unfamiliar night sky for accomplishing their long, challenging trans-continental migrations, could at least release anti-predator vigilance thanks to the concealment of darkness.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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The ability of giant noctules to prey on the wing upon nocturnally migrating passerines appears unique not only among bats but also within the whole animal kingdom.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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So Greater noctules are specialist predators that exploit nocturnally migrating passerines, and to date they are the only animals known to do so.
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Your sniglet sounds a bit more nocturnally athletic than my 9-month-old, though, and for that you have my deepest sympathies.
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The ruling party "cannot nocturnally allocate ministries barely hours after the three principals agreed to disagree by referring the matter to the mediator after a logjam over all key ministries," an MDC statement said.
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Fishes can feed either diurnally (during the day) or nocturnally (at night).
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A Googling of bedbugs reveals that they are defined as any one of the roughly 75 species of Cimicidae that nocturnally feed on humans or other warm-blooded creatures.
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The ability of giant noctules to prey on the wing upon nocturnally migrating passerines appears unique not only among bats but also within the whole animal kingdom.
I’m in, you’re in… 2007
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