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View synonyms for nightly

nightly

[ nahyt-lee ]

adjective

  1. coming or occurring each night:

    his nightly walk to the newsstand.

  2. coming, occurring, appearing, or active at night:

    nightly revels.

  3. of, relating to, or characteristic of night:

    the nightly gloom before a storm.



adverb

  1. on every night:

    performances given nightly.

  2. at or by night:

    an animal that is seen nightly.

nightly

/ ˈnaɪtlɪ /

adjective

  1. happening or relating to each night
  2. happening at night
“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


adverb

  1. at night or each night
“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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nightly1

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

You know, we used to have these nightly calls and we had to lend airlines money to keep them going.

Play with your schedule to see how many hours of nightly sleep you need.

When the pandemic hit, nightly walks with my wife became part of my pandemic routine – a chance to escape the chaos of the world and take solace in the natural beauty of Utah’s mountainscape.

From Quartz

In late March, Hidalgo and Cameron counties, the region’s two population centers, implemented nightly curfews.

In Thailand, too, business were forced to close as the Thai government enacted a strict lockdown, setting a nightly curfew for residents, banning the sale of alcohol, and limiting public gatherings.

From Fortune

Their nightly flights bring with them the powers to pollinate plants and control insect populations.

But beyond the execution of her show on a nightly basis, Chelsea Handler as a late-night host at all was revolutionary.

After a month of almost nightly shelling, about 600,000 people are believed to remain in Donetsk.

See Katie Couric as the first female nightly news anchor as proof.

The explanation is simple, and is as accessible as the nightly news.

I doubt if I should have been making a journey nightly up the hill if I had not expected to find Weston there.

Upon a little spirit-stove stood a covered vessel containing milk, which was placed there nightly by Rita's maid.

Have the weeds grown faster or the vegetables less, because of his nightly visitations to it?

The person whose mind is satisfied by the parlour dullness of that nightly foolery only becomes animated when he is indecent.

The first thing that struck Sara Lee was the way she was saying her nightly prayers in all sorts of odd places.

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