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Definition: Nightly |
NightlyAdjective1. Happening every night; "nightly television now goes on until 3:00 or 4:00 a.m.". Adverb1. At the end of each day; "she checks on her roses nightly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nightly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: NightlySynonym: every night (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Nightly |
| English words defined with "nightly": Leander, Lowell Jackson Thomas, Lowell Thomas ♦ Noctuary ♦ Soft-shelled crabs ♦ Thomas, To bless from ♦ wash down. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nightly": Cecilia ♦ Glass Houses ♦ MINSTREL ♦ Reynard the Fox ♦ stomp on ♦ TALK ♦ Whiteboys. (references) |
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Screenplays | We received a telegram from Mr Chaplin himself at Senate Studios: Twice nightly filming of my films in trenches: excellent idea stop (Blackadder Goes Forth; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton) | |
Lyrics | Nightly, beside the green, green grass (Kiss Me; performing artist: Sixpence None The Richer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | NBC Nightly News (1970) Appearing Nightly (1990) Open Nightly (1982) Once Over Nightly (1975) | |
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| "Ducks" by Harald Wittmaack Commentary: "This happy pair of ducks was hunted down while sneaking home from a nightly walk in Ulm/Germany." |
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James Montgomery | Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | But what would I have then? The aim to which I have aspired for so many years, my nightly dream, |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The gang fell asunder and there were no more nightly forays or battles on the rocks |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Where I lived was as far off as many a region viewed nightly by astronomers |
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Health | Most sleeping pills stop working after several weeks of nightly use, however, and long-term use can actually interfere with good sleep. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Croatia | A network of independent local television stations produced Vijesti, a competing nightly news program that reached 65 percent of the country's territory. (references) |
China | The nightly news program, Focal Point, frequently ran exposes on corruption or socially relevant stories that resulted in the authorities investigating wrongdoing. (references) | |
Central African Republic | After the May 28 attempted coup, the Government closed Mpoko Airport, set up roadblocks, instituted a nightly curfew from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. (modified in December to be from midnight to 5 a.m.), and required that anyone wishing to travel outside the country show signed authorization from Joseph Bindoumi, the General Prosecutor and President of the Mixed Commission. (references) | |
Economic History | Jamaica | Total tourist arrivals to Jamaica during 2000 were 2.2 million persons, with stop-over and cruise ship passengers of 1.3 million and 907 thousand persons, respectively; an average length of stay of 10.1 nights; an average nightly stop-over expenditure of US$ 98.10 per person and average daily cruise ship passengers daily expenditure of US$ 80.60 per person. (references) |
Human Rights | Tanzania | In 2000 police and army units reportedly also made nightly rounds in Pemba following the 2000 elections, conducting house-to-house searches. (references) |
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| "Nightly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 68.39% of the time. "Nightly" is used about 193 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 68.39% | 132 | 27,743 |
| Adverb (general) | 31.61% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Total | 100.00% | 193 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "nightly": change-nightly, twice-nightly. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "nightly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nate (all night, nocturnal, owl), në natë, i natës, çdo natë. (various references) | |
Arabic | كل ليلة (every night), ليلي (nightlife, nighty, nocturnal, overnight). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | който става всяка вечер, всяка вечер, нощен (night, nocturnal, overnight, vespertine). (various references) | |
Chinese | 每夜 . (various references) | |
Czech | noc co noc, noèní (night, night long, nocturnal, overnight, vespertine), v noci (at night, by night), každonoèní. (various references) | |
Farsi | هرشب , شبانه (Nocturnal, Overnight). (various references) | |
Finnish | yöllinen (nocturnal), öinen (nocturnal). (various references) | |
French | de tous les soirs, chaque soir, chaque nuit. (various references) | |
German | nächtlich (at night, by night, during the night, night, night time, nocturnal). (various references) | |
Greek | κάθε βράδυ, κάθε νύχτα, βραδινόσ (overnight), νυκτερινόσ (nocturnal, vespertine), νυχτερινόσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מדי לילה, לילי (nocturnal). (various references) | |
Hungarian | minden éjjel, éjszakai (all-night, night, nocturnal, overnight), éjszakánként (every night, nights, per night), éjjeli (kip, night, nocturnal, to sleep in a doss-house), éjjelenként. (various references) | |
Italian | ogni sera, ogni notte, di ogni sera, di ogni notte, di notte (at nighttime, by night, overnight). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 夜ごと . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | よごと (every night). (various references) | |
Korean | 밤에. (various references) | |
Manx | oieoil, er oie (by night, under cover of night), dagh oie. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ightlynay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | noturno (nocturnal, nocturne, overnight), todas as noites (every night), de noite (overnight). (various references) | |
Romanian | nocturn (nocturnal), noaptea (by night, in the night), noapte de noapte, de noapte (nocturnal). (various references) | |
Russian | ночной (all night, nocturnal, overnight, vespertine), еженощный, еженощно еженощный, еженощно. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | noću (night: at night, nights, nighttime), noćni (night, nocturnal), svake noći. (various references) | |
Spanish | nocturno (night, nocturnal, nocturnally, nocturne), todas las noches, de todas las noches, de noche (at night, bedside, night), cada noche. (various references) | |
Swedish | nattlig (darkling, nocturnal). (various references) | |
Turkish | her gece yapılan, her gece, geceleyin olan, geceleyin (at night, by night, in the night, nocturnally, overnight). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уночі (nights), щонічний, щоночі (night after night), темний (abstruse, backwoods, black, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, lowering, murk, murky, nigrescent, obscure, occult, opaque, shaded, smutty, somber, sombre), кожної ночі, нічний (crepuscular, night, nocturnal), ночами (anight, anights), похмурий (adust, bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dull, dusky, frowning, gash, gaunt, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grave, gruff, hard-faced, inhospitable, lowering, macabre, mopish, mournful, murk, obscure, overcast, sable, saturnine, sepulchral, shadowy, stygian, sullen, surly, tenebrous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | về đêm, đêm đêm. (various references) | |
Welsh | beunos (every night). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "nightly": fortnightly, knightly, midnightly. (additional references) | |
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"Nightly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Naphtali, nighty, nigty, nitely, nitey, nitly, sightly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nightly" (pronounced nī"tlē) |
| 5 | n ī" t l ē | knightly. |
| 4 | -ī" t l ē | brightly, forthrightly, lightly, politely, rightly, slightly, sprightly, tightly, unsightly, Whitely. |
| 3 | -t l ē | abruptly, absolutely, abundantly, accidently, accurately, acutely, adamantly, adequately, adroitly, affectionately, alternately, apparently, appropriately, approximately, aptly, ardently, arrogantly, astutely, blatantly, bluntly, brilliantly, coherently, commensurately, compassionately, competently, complacently, completely, concomitantly, concretely, concurrently, confidently, consequently, consistently, constantly, conveniently, correctly, costly, courtly, covertly, currently, curtly, decently, defiantly, definitely, deftly, deliberately, delicately, desperately, devoutly, differently, difficultly, diligently, directly, discreetly, dishonestly, jointly, justly, lastly, lately, dispassionately, disproportionately, distinctly, earnestly, efficiently, elaborately, elegantly, eloquently, eminently, evidently, exactly, excellently, expertly, explicitly, exquisitely, extravagantly, exultantly, faintly, fervently, firstly, flagrantly, flamboyantly, flatly, fluently, fortnightly, fortunately, fraudulently, frequently, gently, ghastly, ghostly, greatly, hesitantly, honestly, hotly, illicitly, immaculately, immediately, imminently, impatiently, imperfectly, implicitly, importantly, imprudently, inaccurately, inadequately, inadvertently, inappropriately, incessantly, incoherently, incompetently, incorrectly, indefinitely, independently, indignantly, indirectly, indiscriminately, inefficiently, ineptly, infinitely, infrequently, inherently, innately, innocently, inordinately, insistently, instantly, insufficiently, intelligently, intently, intermittently, intimately, intricately, legitimately, leniently, magnificently, manifestly, militantly, minutely, moderately, modestly, mostly, motley, neatly, negligently, nonchalantly, obediently, overtly, partly, passionately, patently, patiently, perfectly, permanently, persistently, pleasantly, poignantly, portly, predominantly, presently, priestly, privately, prominently, promptly, proportionately, prudently, pungently, quaintly, quietly, raptly, recently, reluctantly, remotely, resolutely, reverently, robustly, saintly, secretly, separately, shortly, significantly, silently, smartly, softly, stately, steadfastly, stoutly, strictly, stridently, stringently, subsequently, succinctly, sufficiently, sweetly, swiftly, tacitly, transparently, triumphantly, ultimately, unfortunately, unjustly, unpleasantly, urgently, valiantly, vastly, vehemently, violently, virulently. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-l-n-t-y" | |
-1 letter: nighty, thinly, tingly. | |
-2 letters: glint, hying, light, lingy, linty, lying, night, thing, tying. | |
-3 letters: gilt, hilt, hint, inly, ling, lint, liny, nigh, thin, ting, tiny, tyin. | |
-4 letters: ghi, gin, git, hin, hit, lin, lit, nil, nit, nth, thy, til, tin, yin. | |
-5 letters: hi, in, it, li, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-l-n-t-y" | |
+1 letter: knightly. | |
+2 letters: haltingly, lengthily, naughtily, plaything, unsightly. | |
+3 letters: ethylating, fetchingly, hauntingly, lithifying, midnightly, playthings, scathingly, soothingly, tallyhoing, thinkingly, thrivingly, touchingly. | |
+4 letters: benightedly, daylighting, downrightly, fortnightly, hairstyling, hectoringly, holystoning, methylating, ornithology, photolyzing, slightingly, thrillingly, witheringly. | |
+5 letters: antilynching, bewitchingly, daylightings, enchantingly, hairstylings, hearteningly, hesitatingly, insightfully, phylogenetic, shatteringly, thunderingly, unthinkingly. | |
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