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Nightlong

Definition: Nightlong

Nightlong

Adjective

1. Lasting through or extending over the whole night; "a nightlong vigil"; "an overnight trip".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nightlong" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1867. (references)



Synonym: Nightlong

Synonym: overnight (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Nightlong

English words defined with "nightlong": overnight. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nightlong

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

nightlong

8

nightlong through walk

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Nightlong

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

Farsi 

  

تمامی شب , ازسرشب تابامداد, درسرتاسرشب . (various references)

   

German

  

nächtelang, sich über die ganze nacht hinziehend. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ightlongnay

   

Turkish

  

gece boyunca süren (night long), gece boyunca (all night, all night long, night long). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Nightlong

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-g-h-i-l-n-n-o-t"

-2 letters: longing, nothing, tholing, tonging.

-3 letters: giglot, holing, honing, noggin, noting, ogling, tiglon, toling, toning.

-4 letters: gigot, glint, going, ingot, light, lingo, litho, night, ninth, niton, ohing, thing, thiol, thong, tigon.

-5 letters: gilt, gong, hilt, hint, hogg, holt, hong, into, ling, linn, lino, lint, lion, loin, long, loth, loti, nigh, nogg, noil, thin, thio, ting, toil, tong.

 Words containing the letters "g-g-h-i-l-n-n-o-t"
 

+3 letters: halogenating, moonlighting.

 

+4 letters: anthologizing.

 

+5 letters: technologizing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Nightlong


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 69 67 68 74 6C 6F 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    ..    --.    ....    -    .-..    ---    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01101100 01101111 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116 &#108 &#111 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0069 0067 0068 0074 006C 006F 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

487573748678818073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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