Nightful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Nightful is a noun meaning All that occurs or is done during a single night.
Meaning
All that occurs or is done during a single night.
More Meanings
- As much as is produced or consumed throughout an entire night.
- Pertaining to the night; occurring at night, found at night, resulting from the night, night-like, etc.
Example Sentences
Some people are affected more by two glasses of beer than others by a nightful of Scotch and sodas.
When the evening comes, God's face then is a nightful of stars that lay to rest on the nearby tadpole water.
Fatigue, and want of strength from recent sickness: The ague's touch, that now recurs beneath These nightful dews.
No deer, of course. But summer nightfuls of a raccoon banging the lid of Mr. Gallagher's in-ground garbage can, ker-blam ker-blam ker- blam.
Word Forms
- nightfuls
- nightsful
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include night, dark, nite, nightlessness, lights-out, bedful.
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