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NIGHT WALKER

Definition: NIGHT WALKER

NIGHT WALKER

1. (a) One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist; a noctambulist. (b) One who roves about in the night for evil purposes; specifically, a prostitute who walks the streets.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Synonyms within Context: NIGHT WALKER

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Traveler

Tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling; vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly; globegirdler, globetrotter; vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman; trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: NIGHT WALKER

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Night Walker (1965)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: NIGHT WALKER

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NIGHT WALKER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

night walker

83

night walker anime

6

detective midnight night walker

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: NIGHT WALKER

Language Translations for "NIGHT WALKER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

prostitutë (bawd, call girl, drab, harlot, hooker, light-o'-love, Moll, Molly, night hawk, prostitute, streetwalker, tramp, trollop, trull), endacak nate (night bird). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الطائف الليلي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сомнамбул (sleepwalker, somnambulist), нощно животно, нощна птица (night bird, night hawk, owl), проститутка (doxy, drab, fancy girl, fancy woman, harlot, hooker, night bird, prostitute, punk, scarlet woman, strumpet, tart, tootsy, tramp, trollop, trot, trull, unfortunate, wench, whore). (various references)

   

Czech

  

námìsíèný èlovìk. (various references)

   

French

  

veilleur de nuit (night watchman, nightwatchman). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νυχτοπερπατητήσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

holdkóros (lunatic, moonstruck, noctambulant, sleep walker, sleep-walker, somnambulist, to walk in one's sleep). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ightnay alkerway.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

somnambul (moon-struck, somnambulist), pasãre de noapte (night bird, night hawk, owl). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ночной бродяга, лунатик (sleepwalker, sleep-walker, somnambulist). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mesečar (funambulist, noctambulant, sleepwalker, somnambulist). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

trasnochador (night bird), prostituta (call girl, harlot, hooker, Moll, Molly, prostitute, quail, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, whore). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sömngångare (sleepwalker, somnambulist). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uyurgezer (noctambulist, sleepwalker, sleepwalking, somnambulist, somnambulistic), fahişe (bitch, bum, call girl, courtesan, courtezan, drab, fancy woman, floozy, harlot, hooker, hustler, Moll, painted woman, pro, prostitute, scarlet woman, slag, streetwalker, strumpet, trollop, trull, whore). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сомнамбула (noctambulant, noctambulist, sleep walker, somnambulist), сновида, лунатик (lunatic, noctambulant, noctambulist, nocturnal, sleep walker). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: NIGHT WALKER

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Lymantria monacha. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: NIGHT WALKER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nightwalker.

Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-k-l-n-r-t-w"

-2 letters: earthling, haltering, lathering, nightwear, wreathing.

-3 letters: alerting, altering, atheling, earthing, gnatlike, hearting, ingather, integral, knitwear, litharge, narghile, nargileh, relating, retaking, rewaking, tanglier, thirlage, thrawing, trawling, triangle, twangier, twangler, tweaking, twinkler, wartlike, watering, weakling, wrathing, wreaking.

-4 letters: aligner, alright, antlike, atingle, elating, engrail, enthral, erlking, gahnite, gawkier, gelatin, genital, gherkin, glaiket, granite, gratine, hairnet.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-i-k-l-n-r-t-w"
 

+1 letter: nightwalkers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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