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Definition: NIGHT WALKER |
NIGHT WALKER1. (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. |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Night Walker (1965) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
night walker | 83 |
night walker anime | 6 |
detective midnight night walker | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Lymantria monacha. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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. | |
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| 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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