nightlong

[ adjective nahyt-lawng, -long; adverb nahyt-lawng, -long ]

adjective

1. lasting all night:

   a nightlong snowfall.

adverb

1. through the entire night:

   Volunteer sandbag crews worked nightlong to stem the floodwaters.

nightlong

/ ˈnaɪtˌlɒŋ /

adjective

1. throughout the night

Word History and Origins

Origin of nightlong¹

First recorded before 1000; Middle English; Old English nihtlang (adverb) “for the space of a night”; night, long ¹

Example Sentences

What astonishment that such beauty urges me into bed for a nightlong sweaty roll in tangled sheets.

From The Daily Beast

Where yonder, yonder by the stars,Nightlong there rins a burn, And maids with lovers at the warsMay list their wraiths' return.

From Project Gutenberg

Then, almost imperceptibly, the frogs begin their nightlong din.

From Project Gutenberg

Nightlong did Wur watch over her, and the maid dreamed in sorrow, to wake weeping.

From Project Gutenberg

Nightlong had she Roseheart is Troubledseen the vision of Flame, in whose eyes like the sea lay her white body floating.

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