nights

[nahyts]

adverb

1. at or during the night regularly or frequently.

   He worked during the day and wrote nights.

nights

/ naɪts /

adverb

1. informal,  at night, esp regularly

   he works nights

Word History and Origins

Origin of nights¹

before 900; Middle English nightes, Old English nihtes. See night, -s ¹

Example Sentences

He went on to present Friday nights on BBC Radio 5 Live in the 2000s, as well as programmes such as Not Today, Thank You on Radio 4.

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That year, she played two nights at the Rose Bowl to 120,000 fans, becoming the first Latina to headline a worldwide stadium tour.

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In 2002, his nine-hour trilogy “The Coast of Utopia” came to theaters, bringing three plays on three consecutive nights: “Voyage,” “Shipwreck and “Salvage.”

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"Two nights before the game, we went to assess whether we could send fireworks off above the stands in the event of a City goal," he said.

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Listeners spent summer nights with jazz greats and blues artists.

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