NOCTURN

Definition: NOCTURN

NOCTURN

Noun

1. One of the portions into which the Psalter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, designed to be used at a night service.

2. An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Nocturn \Noc"turn\, noun. [French expression nocturne, from the Latin expression nocturnus. See Nocturnal, and compare to Nocturne.]. (references)

Crosswords: NOCTURN

Romanian (nightly, nocturnal).

Metropolitan Nocturn (1936)

Sacrifi nocturn (1980)

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

Books

• Aperitiu nocturn : novel¨la (reference)

• Nocturn a quatre mans (reference)

• Nocturn de primavera (reference)

• Nocturn per a acordió : espectacle sobre textos de Joan Salvat-Papasseit (reference)

• Sabadell : perfil nocturn : fotografies (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Nocturn [IMPORT] (reference)

• Novena on a Nocturn (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

German

na.chtlich (nocturnal). (various references)

Pig Latin

octurnnay.(various references)

Turkish

gece ayini. (various references)

Ukrainian

всенощна, ноктюрн (night-piece, nocturne). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "NOCTURN": nocturnal, nocturnally, nocturne, nocturnes, nocturns. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: turnon, untorn.

-2 letters: cornu, count, court.

-3 letters: conn, corn, curn, curt, noun, rout, runt, torc, torn, tour, turn, unco, unto.

-4 letters: con, cor, cot, cur, cut, nor, not, nun, nut, orc, ort, our, out, roc, rot, run, rut, ton, tor, tun, urn.

-5 letters: no, nu, on, or, to, un, ut.

+1 letter: nocturne, nocturns.

+2 letters: centurion, congruent, continuer, encounter, neutronic, nocturnal, nocturnes, trouncing, truncheon.

+3 letters: centurions, concurrent, connatural, construing, continuers, contouring, countering, counterion, counterman, countermen, countryman, countrymen, encounters, enunciator, noncountry, noncurrent, recounting, rencounter, truncation, truncheons, undercount, unneurotic, unromantic.

+4 letters: annunciator, concurrents, congruently, conjuncture, conjuration, continuator, conurbation, counterions, countermand, countermine, counterpane, counterplan, countersign, countersink, countersunk, crenulation, encountered, enunciators, functionary, incongruent, incongruity, incurvation, instruction, intercounty, internuncio, introducing, nocturnally, noncomputer, noncultural, noncustomer, outscorning, reencounter, rencounters, truncations, truncheoned, uncontrived, unconverted, undercounts.