nightly

[nahyt-lee]

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adjective

coming or occurring each night: his nightly walk to the newsstand.
coming, occurring, appearing, or active at night: nightly revels.
of, relating to, or characteristic of night: the nightly gloom before a storm.

adverb

on every night: performances given nightly.
at or by night: an animal that is seen nightly.

Origin of nightly

before 900; Middle English; Old English nihtlīc. See night, -ly

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Related Words for nightly

nocturnal, nighttime, nocturnally

Examples from the Web for nightly

Contemporary Examples of nightly

Their nightly flights bring with them the powers to pollinate plants and control insect populations.
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Carrie Arnold
November 12, 2014
But beyond the execution of her show on a nightly basis, Chelsea Handler as a late-night host at all was revolutionary.
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Kevin Fallon
August 27, 2014
After a month of almost nightly shelling, about 600,000 people are believed to remain in Donetsk.
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Anna Nemtsova
August 6, 2014
See Katie Couric as the first female nightly news anchor as proof.
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Emily Shire
April 4, 2014
The explanation is simple, and is as accessible as the nightly news.
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Russell Saunders
March 13, 2014

Historical Examples of nightly

This was the sword which hung daily, nightly, over our heads.
In the Valley
Harold Frederic
Do we not nightly jumble events and personages and times and places, as these do daily?
The Uncommercial Traveller
Charles Dickens
Some that smote the breast nightly in the anguish of remorse.
The Shadow of a Crime
Hall Caine
He did all this in the absent manner of a man who did it nightly.
The Manxman
Hall Caine
"You might change her sentry nightly," put in the Seneschal.
St. Martin's Summer
Rafael Sabatini

British Dictionary definitions for nightly

nightly

adjective

happening or relating to each night
happening at night

adverb

at night or each night

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Word Origin and History for nightly

adj.

Old English nihtlic "nocturnal, of the night, at night;" see night + -ly (1). As an adverb, Middle English nihtlich, from the adjective.