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nightlong
[ adjective nahyt-lawng, -long; adverb nahyt-lawng, -long ]
adjective
- lasting all night:
a nightlong snowfall.
adverb
- through the entire night:
Volunteer sandbag crews worked nightlong to stem the floodwaters.
nightlong
/ ˈnaɪtˌlɒŋ /
adjective
- throughout the night
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Word History and Origins
Origin of nightlong1
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Example Sentences
What astonishment that such beauty urges me into bed for a nightlong sweaty roll in tangled sheets.
Where yonder, yonder by the stars,Nightlong there rins a burn, And maids with lovers at the warsMay list their wraiths' return.
Then, almost imperceptibly, the frogs begin their nightlong din.
Nightlong did Wur watch over her, and the maid dreamed in sorrow, to wake weeping.
Nightlong had she Roseheart is Troubledseen the vision of Flame, in whose eyes like the sea lay her white body floating.
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