nightlifen.
/ˈnʌɪtlʌɪf/, U.S. /ˈnaɪtˌlaɪf/ The social activities or entertainment available at night, usually in a town or a city; (also, occasionally) people or animals active at night.
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair > affairs > of life
worldOE
human affairs1542
life1763
nightlife1852
comédie humaine1876
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > nightlife > [noun]
twilight world1887
night out1890
nightlife1913
nightclubbing1925
night scene1992
1852 H. Melville Pierre xvi. i. 322 All the garish night-life of a vast thoroughfare, crowded and wedged by day, and even now, at this late hour, brilliant with occasional illuminations.
1913 H. L. Mencken Let. 17 Aug. (1961) 32 The title ‘Night Life in Vienna’..has the air of a lure held out to the Puritanical and dirty-minded.
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Jan. 67/2 More tales of American night-life and gangsterdom between the wars.
1989 Scots Mag. Apr. 18/1 The night had been full of the hissing of the young barn owls calling for food, and the usual exciting rustlings and whisperings of the nightlife outside the hide.
2001 Sun 27 Jan. 54/2 (advt.) For quieter nightlife, head for the harbour restaurants and tavernas.
Derivatives
ˈnightlifer n. a person who enjoys or seeks out nightlife; (also) a night-time entertainer.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > nightlife > [noun] > person
Saturday nighter1880
honky-tonker1910
nightclubber1913
nightlifer1929
nightcrawler1940
discomaniac1966
club-hopper1982
1929 Our Army Nov. 18/1 On the road to old Broadway, to here the high night-lifers play.
1954 L. Armstrong Satchmo vii. 117 When the night-lifers got full of liquor..they would line up religiously before her counter and stuff themselves like pigs.
1989 Time Out 18 Oct. 57/1 Manchester's long-time nightlifers ACR have, in their time, swung easily from musical mood to musical mood.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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