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[ nahyts ] / naɪts /
adverbat or during the night regularly or frequently: He worked during the day and wrote nights. Origin of nightsbefore 900; Middle English nightes,Old English nihtes.See night, -s1 Words nearby nightsnight palsy, night person, night raven, nightrider, night robe, nights, night safe, nightscape, night school, nightshade, nightshade family Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for nightsAfter two nights in detention, he was scheduled to be deported back to Turkey on Monday. Pope-Shooter Ali Agca’s Very Weird Vatican Visit|Barbie Latza Nadeau|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST That is how we did the Talladega Nights and Stepbrothers deals. Inside Sony’s ‘Pineapple Express 2 Drama’: Leaked Emails Reveal Fight Over Stoner Comedy Sequel|William Boot|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST For nearly a decade on Comedy Central, four nights a week, a late night talk show host told a story. The End of Truthiness: Stephen Colbert’s Sublime Finale|Noel Murray|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST I know when Ferguson was going down those first few nights, I was watching feeds on the ground on Twitter, not CNN. Ava DuVernay on ‘Selma,’ the Racist Sony Emails, and Making Golden Globes History|Marlow Stern|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I worked a lot of 11-7 shifts, and so had to stay awake, although most of the nights other people slept. James Patterson Goes Full ‘Fahrenheit 451’ With Burning Book Video|William O’Connor|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST And there is the cave under the rock where Moses dwelt, when he fasted forty days and forty nights. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville|John Mandeville Frye was caught in a trap of his own setting and could not sleep nights. Uncle Terry|Charles Clark Munn He had extraordinary luck at Baden: broke the bank several nights, and was the fable of the place. The History of Pendennis|William Makepeace Thackeray Maybe to-morrow, after he had had a good nights sleep, he could better bear meeting and answering them. Rejected of Men|Howard Pyle This is continued for two or three days and nights until the corn has put forth sprouts a couple of inches long. Our Southern Highlanders|Horace Kephart
British Dictionary definitions for nights
adverbinformal at night, esp regularlyhe works nights Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to nightsmidnight, duskiness, gloom, evening, darkness, nighttime, dark, eventide, blackness, nightfall, twilight, obscurity, bedtime, black, dim, witching hour, after hours, nighttide, pitch dark |