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Definition: Nightcap |
NightcapNoun1. An alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic. 2. A cloth cap worn in bed. 3. The final game of a double header. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nightcap" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Nightcap (A). A glass of grog before going to bed. Supposed to promote sleep. "The nightcap is generally a little whisky left in the decanter. To do it honour it is taken neat. Then all get up and wish `good-night."'- Max O'Rell: Friend MacDonald, iii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Nightcap is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 626 km north of Sydney.
Fact sheet
See also: Protected areas of New South Wales (Australia)
- Area: 8,080 ha
- Latitude: 28° 32' 38" S
- Longitude: 153° 17' 35" E
- Date of establishment: April 22, 1983
- Managing authorities: New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service
- IUCN category: II
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nightcap National Park."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Headdress, headgear; chapeau, crush hat, opera hat; kaffiyeh; sombrero, jam, tam-o-shanter, tarboosh, topi, sola topi, pagri, puggaree; cap, hat, beaver hat, coonskin cap; castor, bonnet, tile, wideawake, wimple; nightcap, mobcap, skullcap; hood, coif; capote, calash; kerchief, snood, babushka; head, coiffure; crown; (circle); chignon, pelt, wig, front, peruke, periwig, caftan, turban, fez, shako, csako, busby; kepi, forage cap, bearskin; baseball cap; fishing hat; helmet; mask, domino. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nightcap |
| English words defined with "nightcap": one's self ♦ To truss a person. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Then how about a nightcap on the company (The Spy Who Loved Me; writing credit: Christopher Wood) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nightcap (1963) The Nightcap (1917) Nightcap (1999) | |
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| "Nightcap" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.00% of the time. "Nightcap" is used about 50 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 50 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
nightcap | 27 |
fritz nightcap nikki | 6 |
cinemax nightcap | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nightcap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | skufje nate, pije me alkool para gjumit. (various references) | |
Arabic | كأس الخمرة الأخيرة, قلنسوة النوم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нощна шапчица, боне (bonnet, caul, mob cap, mutch). (various references) | |
Czech | noèní èepièka (night cap), sklenièka před spaním. (various references) | |
Farsi | مشروب قبل ازخواب , شب کلاه . (various references) | |
French | bonnet de nuit, boisson alcoolisé prise avant le coucher. (various references) | |
German | nachtmütze. (various references) | |
Greek | νυχτικόσ σκούφοσ, ποτό προ του ύπνου. (various references) | |
Hebrew | כוסית אחרו ". (various references) | |
Hungarian | hálósapka (Biggin, slumber cap). (various references) | |
Italian | bevanda alcolica bevuta prima di andare a letto, berretto da notte. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ドレス店 (a patient's call button in a hospital, Don, Don Juan, donkey, don't mind, don't-know group, draw, draw ball, drawer, drawing, drawn game, drawnwork, dress store, dresser, dressing, dressing paper, dressing room, dressmaker, dressy, drone, drop, drop goal, drop handle, drop-kick, dropout, dungarees, dwarf, game under lights, knife, knife ridge, knight, naive, nervous, Niagara, nice, nice guy, nice middle, nice shot, Nigeria, night, night cream, night game, night hospital, night latch, night show, night spot, night table, nightclub, nightdress, nightgown, nightingale, nightmare, nightwear, Nike Hercules, Nile, Nile green, nurse, nurse bank, nurse call, nurse station, nursery, nursery tale, nylon latch, sunday, the firing of guns), 寝' (a drink before sleeping). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ナイトキャップ , ねざけ (a drink before sleeping). (various references) | |
Manx | jough oie, bonnad oie. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ightcapnay.(various references) | |
Romanian | pahar înainte de culcare, bonetã de noapte. (various references) | |
Russian | выпивка перед сном, ночной колпак. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | noćna kapica, poslednje piće pred spavanje. (various references) | |
Swedish | sängfösare. (various references) | |
Thai | เครื่อง"ื่มอัลกอฮอล์ (idiot oil). (various references) | |
Turkish | yatmadan içilen içki, yatak şapkası. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cuộc chạy đua chung kết. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle Dutch | 1100-1500 | muste. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nightcap": nightcaps. (additional references) | |
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"Nightcap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nightmap. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: patching. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n-p-t" | |
-1 letter: gnathic. | |
-2 letters: aching, acting, canthi, catnip, haptic, hating, hatpin, pacing, painch, phatic, taping. | |
-3 letters: acing, actin, aitch, antic, aping, chain, chang, chant, chapt, china, giant, inapt, natch, night, paint, panic, patch, patin, pinch, pinta, pitch, thing. | |
-4 letters: agin, anti, cain, cant, caph, chap, chat, chia, chin, chip, chit, gain, gait, ghat, gnat, hang, hant. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-n-p-t" | |
+1 letter: nightcaps. | |
+2 letters: chaptering, pathogenic, repatching. | |
+3 letters: despatching, dispatching, mispatching, parachuting, potlatching. | |
+4 letters: antipoaching, camphorating, ethnographic, outpreaching, pantographic, pathogenetic, scintigraphy, stenographic. | |
+5 letters: anthropogenic, cinematograph, gonadotrophic, hectographing, hypothecating, nonpathogenic, pathogenicity, pathognomonic, phagocytizing, phagocytosing, scintigraphic. | |
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