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单词 night school
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night schooln.

Brit. /ˈnʌɪt skuːl/, U.S. /ˈnaɪt ˌskul/
Forms: see night n. and school n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: night n., school n.1
Etymology: < night n. + school n.1
1. A group meeting for instruction or discussion at night. Obsolete. rare.Used by More with specific reference to the alleged heretic Richard Hunne (d. 1514), who met with his friends for ‘theyr redyngys in a chamber at midnyghte’.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > types of
morn-speechOE
court1154
morrow-speech1183
conventicle1382
congregation1389
plenary session1483
journeyc1500
night school1529
assession1560
general meeting1565
family meeting1638
panegyris1647
desk1691
collegea1703
annual general meeting1725
mass meeting1733
panegyre1757
plenum1772
family council1797
coterie1805
Round Table1830
GA1844
indignation meeting1848
protest meeting1852
hui1858
primary1859
Quaker meeting1861
mothers' meeting1865
sit-down1868
town hall1912
jamboree1919
protest rally1921
con1940
face-to-face1960
morning prayers1961
struggle meeting1966
be-in1967
love-in1967
plenary1969
catch-up1972
rencontre1975
schmoozefest1976
1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. xv. f. xciii/2 Other could we not come by, whom we myght ferther examyne of that nyght scole.
2. An evening class or series of classes, usually for adults who work during the day; an institution providing such classes.
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society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution > other types of
academya1583
military school1673
evening school1742
city farm1750
night school1780
school ship1785
neighbourhood school1842
academy school1852
writing school1928
juku1962
1780 New Jersey Jrnl. 22 Nov. 4/2 Wanted, to be bound, a Boy;..he shall be..sent to night school if required.
1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. xi. 59 I larnt French at night school one winter.
1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance xi, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 200 Three sermons on Sunday, a night-school for young men on Tuesday, a cottage-lecture on Thursday.
1891 S. Fiske Holiday Stories (Boston ed.) i. 19 Will you go to night-school and learn?
1924 Amer. Mercury Nov. 314/2 The lowly wop..is sent to a night-school to learn the principles of Americanism.
1949 Dict. National Biogr. 1931–40 at Mitchell, Reginald Joseph During his apprenticeship [he] went to night school at local technical colleges.
1999 T. Etchells Endland Stories 119 Wendy's daughter (Grief) enrolled at night school to study old Sanskrit language and quantum math.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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